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
DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium thin, well-fused transparent manganese-colored pale brown glass (near 5 YR 5/2) with translucent pale olive handles and thread. It is free-blown and tooled, with a pontil mark about 0.7 cm wide. Small vertically elongated bubbles appear in the lower body and neck, and small spherical bubbles in the shoulder. Excess glass at the tips of the two angular flat coil handles is folded back on top of each handle. The circular mouth has a rim rounded and thickened in flame. A tall cylindrical neck shows a bulge above a constriction at its base, leading to a horizontal shoulder. The inverted conical body, with slightly concave sides, forms about three-fifths of the total height and ends in an open pushed-in base. On the neck, four counterclockwise revolutions of a thin spiral thread run from halfway down the neck to its base, then turn upward with eight clockwise revolutions from the base of the neck to the rim. This vessel is classified as
IA2b for the handles.
Probably first half of sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to early fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
about 4th century CE
Mid-fourth to fifth century
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