Perfume Bottle (Alabastron)

c. 325–275 BCE Diameter: 5.1 cm (2 in.); Overall: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.) Source image
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Before glassblowing was invented in about 50 BC, glass bottles were formed by winding molten glass around a mud or dung core much the way cotton candy is wrapped around a paper cone. Later, the core was scraped out leaving a hollow bottle to be filled with expensive perfumes o...

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