Piriform Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)

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Piriform Bottle with Two Handles (Amphora)

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date2nd-3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (12.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm); Body Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Base Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1198

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of thin glass that appears transparent manganese-colored pale red-purple (5 RP 6/2) with translucent similarly colored handles (5 RP 4/2). The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. It was free-blown and tooled, with a pontil mark approximately 1.3 cm in diameter. Excess glass at the tips of the handles has been clipped off. The bottle has a heavy hollow rim folded outward, downward, upward, and inward, a tubular neck with a bulge above the constriction at its base, a strongly sloped shoulder, a piriform body, and an open pushed-in base. Two angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder and attached to the upper part of the neck where they are folded inward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then extended upward and inward over the rim and flattened. This vessel is classified as a Piriform Bottle I A 3 b.