Spherical Bottle with Two Handles (Aryballos)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm); Diam (body): 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut; handle cast

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1010

Not on View

DescriptionThick glass. Pinprick and small spherical bubbles. Transparent to translucent pale olive (10 Y 6/2). Free-blown; scar on base, ca. 1.3 cm. Tips of handles folded inward against neck. Wheel-cut decoration. Wide hollow rim, folded outward, downward, outward, upward, inward, and flattened to form a broad brim. Cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Horizontal shoulder. Spherical body. Base flattened with slight depression in center. Two fat coil handles from shoulder to below rim. On body, five bands of wheel-cut incisions, the middle one a shallow groove.