Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent very dark green (?), appearing opaque black, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with thick rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; rounded uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; uneven convex bottom with tooling marks and smoothed in applied blob of same color glass; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, one slightly higher than the other, app
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Eastern Mediterranean or Italian Translucent very dark green (?), appearing opaque black, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with thick rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; rounded uneven shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; uneven convex bottom with tooling marks and smoothed in applied blob of same color glass; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, one slightly higher than the other, applied over trail fine yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; on body, bands of fine trails in yellow, white and turquoise blue, tooled from shoulder to lower body into an irregular zigzag pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes forming vertical ribs, with yellow, thicker trail continuing in a spiral around but broken and repaired around center of body; many pinprick bubbles; some dulling, pitting, and iridescent the late fourth century , perfume containers often are far larger than their predecessors and have strikingly elegant decoration in the form of delicate colored threads combed into a zigzag, feather, or festoon Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 249978
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