Bulbous Bottle with Two Trailed Handles

Place of OriginRoman Levant

Date4th-5th century

Dimensions7 1/4 × 1 3/4 × 3 in. (18.4 × 4.4 × 7.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1916.72

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thick glass. Medium-sized bubbles elongated vertically in neck, diagonally in body. Natural light yellowish-green; applied and tooled dark greenish-blue decoration; flared rim; cylindrical neck; applied decorative thread on underside of rim; another near bottom of neck; ovoid body; two applied trails, which extend from middle of neck to shoulder as handles, then continue down sides of body as crimped decoration; tooled circular foot. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm. Added coils. Excess glass at tip of handles pinched into diagonal projection and clipped off. Flaring rim, rounded in flame. Tubular neck with constriction at its base. Piriform body. Pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Two curved coil handles with tails applied to lower part of body, trailed up body with 11 crimps on one side and 12 on the other to shoulder, then bent out into decorative loop handles and attached to neck just above neck coil with an additional crimp at point of attachment. Rim coil and neck coil on lower part of neck from right to left. CLASSIFICATION Piriform Bottle I A 1 b with handle type I C 2 a Transparent light olive (near 10 Y 5/4, but more yellow). Translucent to opaque dusky blue green (near 5 BG 3/2) coils, handles, and trails.