Sperical Bottle with Two Handles

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Sperical Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Dateabout 1st-2nd Century

DimensionsH: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Diam (body): 2 3/16 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, wheel cut; applied handles

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1012

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DescriptionThis aryballos is made of thick glass in a transparent to translucent natural dusky yellow hue (5 GY 5/2) with pinprick and small spherical bubbles. It is free-blown, tooled, wheel-cut, with applied handles. The base shows no pontil mark. The vessel features a hollow collar rim folded outward, downward, outward again, upward, and flattened to form a brim. Its cylindrical neck has a constriction at its base and transitions to a horizontal shoulder above a fully spherical body with a slightly flattened base. Two small coil handles extend from the shoulder to just below the rim. Around the center of the body are three bands of wheel-cut incisions; the middle band is a shallow groove. This form corresponds to Isings 1957, Form 61.