Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 2nd–mid 1st century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent deep purple, with lighter, reddish streaks; handles in translucent dark blue; trails in opaque white and another in now indeterminate , almost horizontal rim-disk; cylindrical neck; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one slightly higher than the attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern with thirteen upward st
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 2nd–mid 1st century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent deep purple, with lighter, reddish streaks; handles in translucent dark blue; trails in opaque white and another in now indeterminate , almost horizontal rim-disk; cylindrical neck; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one slightly higher than the attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern with thirteen upward strokes, wound round again in spiral to top of body, with white trail ending in a backward around top of neck with almost half of rim-disk missing, and one trail completely weathered, leaving only indentation in body; dulling, severe pitting and weathering, and faint Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 249819
Size: 4000px × 4000px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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