Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Translucent deep purple, with lighter, reddish streaks; handles in translucent dark blue; trails in opaque white and another in now indeterminate color.
Thick, 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 other.
Trails 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 loop.
Broken 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 iridescence.
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