Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

Opaque dark purple, appearing black, with lighter red brown streaks, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.

Inward-sloping rim-disk with rough protruding edge to mouth; short concave neck; broad sloping shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly uneven bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails extend from shoulder to neck and underside of rim-disk.

A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk, with top of neck folded over part of trail; yellow and turquoise blue trails applied in a band around the upper half of body and tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; below this, two separate yellow and turquoise blue trails added vertically to lower body and wound once round bottom in an irregular swirl; one raised yellow blob on edge of shoulder on one side.

Intact, except for one small chip in rim-disk; dulling, pitting, and heavily weathered with patches of milky white iridescence.

Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891