Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) mid-4th–early 3rd century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque horizontal rim-disk with rounded edge; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering sharply downwards; applied small circular base-knob with uneven edge and tooling indent on flat bottom; two slender strap handles applied to shoulder and drawn up, turned in, and pressed on to yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk;
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) mid-4th–early 3rd century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent cobalt blue, with handles and base-knob in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque horizontal rim-disk with rounded edge; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering sharply downwards; applied small circular base-knob with uneven edge and tooling indent on flat bottom; two slender strap handles applied to shoulder and drawn up, turned in, and pressed on to yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied to top of body and wound horizontally and then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, formed by uneven shallow vertical tooling indents around middle of body, where a second trail in white is added, mingling with the yellow trail; a third yellow trail wound in a spiral 3 1/2 times horizontally around lower part of body; another yellow trail wound unevenly around and cracked, with one hole in neck and another small hole in body; most of one handle and central part of the other missing; dulling, pitting and patches of faint iridescent Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 250012
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