Jar with Base Ring and Two Handles
Jar with Base Ring and Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 4 13/16 in. (12.25 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Diam (body): 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)
MediumFree blown; tooled; applied handles
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1384
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small spherical bubbles.
Opaque white body and handles; ovoid body; folded rim; two applied handles extend from neck to shoulder; slight indentation above circular base area.
Opaque white (near 5 B 9/1 or N 8). Handles of similar color.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tips of handles drawn out thin.
Flaring rim, folded outward/downward, then upward. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Oval body. Base flattened with depression in center; open, pushed-in tubular base ring. Two bifurcated handles from shoulder to rim.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 15
Published ReferencesHaberey, Waldemar, "Der Werkstoff Glas im Altertum," Glastechenis Berichte, May 1958, no. 5, pp. 188-94, fig. 3 (ill).
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Second half of the first century CE
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Second half of first century CE
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