Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent purple but streaked with light blue especially around lower body, with handles and base-knob also in translucent light blue; trails in opaque yellow and turquoise rim-disk; cylindrical neck; uneven angular shoulder; ovoid body, tapering downwards to pointed bottom; applied small circular base-knob with rounded edge and small indent at center of slanting bottom; two strap handles applied to top of shoulder and drawn up and in, forming oval rings on sides of yellow trail atta
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent purple but streaked with light blue especially around lower body, with handles and base-knob also in translucent light blue; trails in opaque yellow and turquoise rim-disk; cylindrical neck; uneven angular shoulder; ovoid body, tapering downwards to pointed bottom; applied small circular base-knob with rounded edge and small indent at center of slanting bottom; two strap handles applied to top of shoulder and drawn up and in, forming oval rings on sides of yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thick yellow trail applied to shoulder and wound in a spiral around to top of body, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern on upper body, where a turquoise blue trail is added, mingling with the yellow; below this, a third fine yellow trail wound horizontally twice around lower ; slight dulling and pitting, with small patches of iridescent vessels such as these first appeared in the Greek world late in the sixth century They originally contained perfumes or scented oils used in funerary rites, after which the bottles were left in the Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 250009
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