Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: Height: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm) Diameter: 1 1/2 × 7/8 in. (3.8 × 2.3 cm). Date: 2nd-mid 1st century B.C.. Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and projecting jagged inner edge to mouth; 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 other. Thick trail appl
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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: Height: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm) Diameter: 1 1/2 × 7/8 in. (3.8 × 2.3 cm). Date: 2nd-mid 1st century B.C.. Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and projecting jagged inner edge to mouth; 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 other. Thick trail applied around rim; another trail attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern on side with twelve upward strokes, and wound round again in spiral ending on rim. Intact; some dulling, a few deep pitting holes, and faint iridescence. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.