Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 2nd–mid 1st Century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in opaque white; trail in opaque greyish light rim-disk with thick rounded edge; slender cylindrical neck, slanting to one side and flaring at base; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two large horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of applied near bottom, wound upwards in a spiral to carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in nine panels of alter
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 2nd–mid 1st Century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in opaque white; trail in opaque greyish light rim-disk with thick rounded edge; slender cylindrical neck, slanting to one side and flaring at base; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two large horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of applied near bottom, wound upwards in a spiral to carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, arranged in nine panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, then wound again in a spiral up neck and unevenly around rim, and trailed off vertically downwards across neck to top of and repaired, with three holes in middle of body; dulling and pitting, with faint iridescent Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. 2nd–mid 1st Century Glass; core-formed, Group III. Hellenistic. Glass
Size: 4000px × 4000px
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