Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)

Place of OriginRoman Empire

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

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium thin glass that is transparent light olive brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4), with translucent similarly colored handles and coil. The glass contains some small bubbles, which are vertically elongated in the neck and oval in the body. The vessel was free-blown and tooled, with a pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm in diameter and an added neck coil. Excess glass at the tips of the handles has been clipped off. It has a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward, a cylindrical neck with a bulge above the constriction at its base, and a strongly sloping shoulder leading into a bulbous body that sits above a concave base with a kick. Two bifurcated coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the neck coil, and attached to the rim. A neck coil at the mid-point of the neck runs from left to right with a buckle at the point of attachment. This vessel is classified as a Bulbous Bottle I A 3 a.