Alabastron, cylindrical belly, 4th–3rd century BC, unknown origin, vessel alabastron, height 17.4 cm, width 4.4 cm, A tall narrow object with a flared flat top, predominantly dark in color with decorative flowing featherlike patterns in a yellowish tone running vertically along its length, showing areas of lighter and darker speckling on the dark surface and some subtle bluish highlights, the top edge also showing a rim of the yellowish color against the dark background.
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Alabastron, cylindrical belly, 4th–3rd century BC, unknown origin, vessel alabastron, height 17.4 cm, width 4.4 cm, A tall narrow object with a flared flat top, predominantly dark in color with decorative flowing featherlike patterns in a yellowish tone running vertically along its length, showing areas of lighter and darker speckling on the dark surface and some subtle bluish highlights, the top edge also showing a rim of the yellowish color against the dark background.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26A18_394

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Alabastron cylindrical belly 4th–3rd century BC unknown origin vessel alabastron height 17.4 cm width 4.4 cm tall narrow object flared flat top predominantly dark color decorative flowing featherlike patterns yellowish tone running vertically length showing areas lighter darker speckling dark surface subtle bluish highlights top edge also showing rim yellowish color dark background.

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