Jar with Two Handles (Amphoriskos)
Jar with Two Handles (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, with applied handles
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.566
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small spherical and elongated bubbles, horizontal near base, vertical in upper body and neck.
Translucent very dark royal blue. Handles of similar color or opaque white (see Condition).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tips of handles drawn out thin and folded back.
Rim irregularly folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Base flattened with depression in center. Two bifurcated handles from shoulder to just below rim.
1st century CE
Probably fourth century
Probably fourth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
about 3rd-4th century CE
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