Glass jug

Roman

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Translucent pale purple; handle in translucent pale blue green, and trails in uncertain color.
Rounded rim with slightly in turned lip; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward and joining imperceptibly with sloping shoulder; bulging rounded outer edge to shoulder; tapering body with concave side; integral tubular base ring; pushed-in bottom with large circular pontil mark at center; handle applied as a broad pad to edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in horizontally, and attached to rim.
One irregular trail wound around edge and underside of rim; another, applied as a leaf-shaped pad, wound one and a half times around neck.
Broken and repaired around neck and rim, with rod handle reattached at top and bottom, and part of trail around neck missing; some bubbles; severe pitting, brilliant iridescence, and areas of thick black weathering.

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