Alabaster flask with stopper, 2nd–early 1st century

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Alabaster flask with stopper, Hellenistic, 2nd–early 1st century , Cypriot, Calcite (alabaster), H. cm., Miscellaneous-Stone Vases, In the Hellenistic period stone and glass vessels shared many of the same shapes and uses. Some cast glass alabastra, for example, have stoppers that are similar to this alabaster flask. Glass, however, gradually came to supplant the use of stone for such perfume bottles during the first century B

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