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Core-formed glass alabastron.Opaque white and opaque orange trails, translucent dark blue body and handles. Broad rim-disc, bevelled inward, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish neck, cylindrical within, but tapering downward on the outside; vestigial round-angled shoulder; elongated oval body with convex sides; rounded bottom. Below shoulder, two vertical ring-handles with knobbed tails. Handles at different heights and lower one has a longer tail. Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered white trail dropped on shoulder and wound down spirally to basal angle in eleven vertical panels of inverted festoons. Core-formed; rim-disc and handles trailed on and tooled, the handles formed by drawing upward from a drop-on at bottom and folding inward over a tool to make the ring.
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