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Alabastron (perfume bottle)

Alabastron (perfume bottle)

Graeco-Roman

Alabstron (unguent bottle) with cobalt blue ground and opaque yellow and light blue trail in a feather decoration running spirally down the length of the body. Narrow rim disk with rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; cylindrical body tapering slightly inward at the bottom. For similar vessels see: M. Stern. Early Ancient Glass: The Toledo Museum. nos. 162-164.

Glass

Hellenistic period

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