Jar with Two Handles (Amphoriskos)

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Jar with Two Handles (Amphoriskos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, with applied handles

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.568

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous long vertical linear bubbles in neck Translucent to transparent dark royal blue. Opaque to translucent pale blue (5 B 6/2) handles. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tips of handle drawn out thin and folded back. Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall, slightly concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Ovoid body. Base flattened with slight depression in center. Two bifurcated handles from shoulder to rim. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 15 (variation)

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.)