Pointed Jar with Two Handles (Amphora)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsL: 14 15/16 in. (38 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied handles and decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.990

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small vertically elongated bubbles in body and neck. Natural light bluish-green body; darker greenish-blue applied decoration and handles; flared rim; cylindrical neck; two thick applied coils: one below rim, one at bottom of neck; two handles extend from neck to shoulder; pyriform body; body with fifteen tooled vertical ribs. Transparent natural green (10 G 6/2), tending toward translucent dark yellowish green (10 GY 4/4) at base. Translucent moderate green handles and coils (5 BG 4/6). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm. Picked up threads. Added coils. Excess glass at tip of handles folded upward and backward, inward, upward, and backward forming pseudo-thumbrest over neck coil. Everted rim, rounded in flame. Tall cylindrical neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Sloping shoulder. Elongated pointed body. Solid pointed base. Two coil handles from shoulder to middle of neck. Rim coil; neck coil. On body, 14 vertical applied ribs. CLASSIFICATION Stern 1977, amphora IVA1a