Primary Description:
Perfume Bottle (Alabastron). Opaque grey-brown glass with opaque yellow and opaque white trails, bubbly dull surface with several large cavities and long cracks, patches of thin incrustation; core-formed. Thickened rim of yellow glass, short cylindrical neck spreads out somewhat to shoulder, narrow shoulder bends down into elongated ovoid body which tapers to a point; neck is decorated with two applied white trails forming a register in which three more white trails have been dragged up and down thirteen times, a yellow trail from the rim seems to run through this design and down into the decoration on the body terminating in a marvered blob near one handle; the body is decorated with the continuous white trail closely wound thirty-three times around the vessel and dragged up and down over thirty times, all trails marvered in; two handles applied below shoulder in yellow glass are broken away but must have been "ducks head" variety; yellow applied to tip of base.