Inverted Conical Bottle with Two Handles (Amphoriscus)
Inverted Conical Bottle with Two Handles (Amphoriscus)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2 cm); Body Diam: 3 in. (7.7 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1199
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Good quality with very few small vertically elongated bubbles in lower body and neck, small spherical bubbles in shoulder.
Well-fused transparent manganese colored pale brown (near 5 YR 5/2). Translucent pale olive handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 0.7 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tip of handles folded back on top of handle.
Circular mouth. Rim rounded and thickened in flame. Tall cylindrical neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder. Inverted conical body about three-fifths of total height with slightly concave sides. Open pushed-in base. Two angular flat coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to lower part of neck. There are three diagonal pinched projections at points of application, attachment, and at angle on each handle.
On neck, four counterclockwise revolutions of thin thread spiral from halfway down neck to its base, then turning upward with eight clockwise revolutions from base of neck to rim.
CLASSIFICATION: Handles: IA2b.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to early fifth century
Probably first half of sixth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
about 3rd-4th century CE
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