Spherical Bottle with Two Handles (Aryballos)
Spherical Bottle with Two Handles (Aryballos)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.4 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1011
Not on View
DescriptionThis aryballos is made of thick glass in a translucent dark greenish yellow hue (10 Y 6/6); the fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. It is free-blown, tooled, and wheel-cut, with no pontil mark. The tips of the coil handles are drawn out thin and folded back.
The bottle features a hollow collar rim folded outward, downward, outward again, upward, inward, and flattened to form a broad brim. A cylindrical neck with a central bulge and a tool mark at its base transitions to a horizontal shoulder and a fully spherical body. The slightly flattened base allows the vessel to stand upright. Two broad coil handles run from the shoulder to just below the rim. On the upper body, two narrow bands of light incisions and one shallow wheel-cut groove add decoration. This form corresponds to Isings 1957, Form 61.
1st-2nd century CE
about 1st-2nd Century
about 1st-2nd century CE
about 350-300 BCE
mid-late 4th century BCE
Second half of 5th through early 4th centuries BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
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