Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)
Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Body Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1196
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Some small bubbles vertically elongated in neck, oval in body.
Transparent light olive brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4). Translucent similarly colored handles and coil.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm. Added coil. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off. Tooled.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Cylindrical neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Strongly sloping shoulder. Bulbous body. Concave base with kick. Two bifurcated coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to neck coil, and attached to rim.
Neck coil at mid-point of neck from left to right with buckle at point of attachment.
CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 3 a.
about 3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
4th-5th century
Probably fourth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
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