Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in opaque yellow; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; right-angled shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, somewhat pointed bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck.
Turquoise blue trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; a thick yellow trail applied on upper body and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by shallow vertical tooling indents; two turquoise blue trails applied, the upper one over yellow, also forming part of the zigzag pattern; below this, a yellow trail and a turquoise blue trail wound horizontally once around body.
Intact; slight dulling and pitting, and small patches of brown encrustation.
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