Ovoid Jar on Three Pinched Feet
Ovoid Jar on Three Pinched Feet
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd century CE
DimensionsH: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in (6.0 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.926
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread.
Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm. Excess glass at tips of handles pinched into projection near rim.
Thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Outsplayed rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Short concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Ovoid body with greatest diameter at middle. Base flattened with slight depression in center. Three feet pinched out of base each with a tool mark on toe. Two curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to side of rim where a pinched fold projects upward.
On body, seven revolutions of thin thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar IV C 2 g.
Late 4th-5th century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
3rd-4th century CE
Probably fourth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
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