Spherical Bottle with Two Handles (Aryballos)
Spherical Bottle with Two Handles (Aryballos)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Dateabout 1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm); Max Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown, tooled, wheel cut, applied handles.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1072
Not on View
DescriptionThick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent to translucent natural dusky yellow-green (near 5 GY 5/2).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Wheel-cut decoration.
Hollow collar rim, folded outward, downward, outward, upward, and flattened to form a brim. Cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Spherical body. Base flattened. Two coil handles from shoulder to underside of rim.
Two wheel-cut circles just below handle and one on base. On body, four small wheel-cut circles, each surrounded by a shallow circular wheel-cut groove bordered by a wheel-cut circle.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 61.
about 1st-2nd Century
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
Probably mid-1st century, about 40-70
3rd-4th century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
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