Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 6th–5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque rim-disk, with tooling indents in upper surface; cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; elongated oval body with marked upward taper; convex, slightly pointed bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails applied over trail decoration; one with a longer tail than the yellow trail attached unevenly at edge of rim-disk; a white trail applied as a thick blob at top of body an
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 6th–5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque rim-disk, with tooling indents in upper surface; cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; elongated oval body with marked upward taper; convex, slightly pointed bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails applied over trail decoration; one with a longer tail than the yellow trail attached unevenly at edge of rim-disk; a white trail applied as a thick blob at top of body and wound down in spiral ten times and overlaid with a yellow trail, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around the central part of body, flanked at top and bottom by overlaid thicker yellow trails; below this, the white trail continuesfive and a half times horizontally around lower body, again overlaid with a yellow trail; one large round blue blob protrudes from side of , except for part of trail around rim-dis and some surface cracks around bottom; dulling and pitting, and most of body covered with thin creamy iridescent Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 245721
Size: 3791px × 3792px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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