Bottle; Karanis; Glass vessels; Glass; wheel cut decoration
Green. Bottle-jug. Rim well outsplayed, and rounded. Neck roughly cylindrical, broadening out slightly toward base. Shoulder nearly horizontal. Roll in the glass at junction of shoulder and body. Body cylindrical with slight downward taper in sides. Base concave. Horizontal coil underneath rim and broad, four-ribbed handle joining rim and shoulder, both of similar glass. Geometrical pattern all over body consisting of fairly well-cut facets and scratched lines. At top, a horizontal row of small vertical ovals, with two horizontal scratched lines below them. At bottom, another row of small vertical ovals with two horizontal scratched lines above them. Between these borders an alternating pattern repeated five times consisting of a tall oval facet in a panel with a pointed top and a smaller oval facet within a scratched oval superimposed on a pattern of criss-cross scratches within a double diamond of scratched lines. Blackish brown contents stain. No weathering. Bubbly.
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