Jar with Base Ring and Two Handles (Amphoriscus)

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Jar with Base Ring and Two Handles (Amphoriscus)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.54 cm); Max Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, with applied handles

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.663

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DescriptionThin glass. Numerous pinprick bubbles. Translucent manganese colored glass. Two similarly colored handles. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Rim rolled inward with tool mark on interior. Tall slightly concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Ovoid body. Pushed-in base with hollow tubular base ring with slight depression in center. Two bifurcated handles from shoulder to rim. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 15

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 55, no. 128. (A close parallel dated "About late 1st-early 2nd century A.D.").Comparative ReferencesSee also Hayes 1975, no. 128 differs from TMA not only in handles but also in concave base; von Saldern 1974, no. 545 (ill.) (blue, FO unknown, H approximately 10.0 cm. handles don't touch rim); Smith 1957, no. 62 (ill.) opaque white, acq. Lebanon (handles bifurcated? Now in Corning ?); check Charvet. Look for more Eastern examples. Is there a criterion for distinguishing Eastern ones from Western ones? See Smith 1982, no. 21, fig. 4 from Monasteriaki Kephala (Crete), in a tomb dated to the second half of the first cent.