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Object NamePerfume Bottle (Alabastron)

Made FromGlass

Date799-600 BCE

Techniquecore-formed

SizeOverall H: 11 cm, Diam (max): 4.7 cm

Accession Number63.1.29

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

A Wonder to Behold: The Power of Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate

Place Made

Mesopotamia; Iran

Physical DescriptionPerfume 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.
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