Hexagonal Jug with Dionysiac Symbols

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Hexagonal Jug with Dionysiac Symbols

Place of OriginSyria or Palestine, perhaps made in Sidon or Galilee

DateProbably second quarter of the first century

DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm); Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.486

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DescriptionTranslucent streaked manganese colored glass. Translucent pale green handle. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Neck free blown. Body blown into a multipart mold of three or two vertical sections joined to a cup-shaped base section which included the ribbed area around the bottom (MCT I or MCT V). Mold seams concealed within the decoration. Tip of handle drawn out thin and folded back. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Convex shoulder and convex bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Flat base with two raised concentric circles around a central knob on the underside. Bifurcated handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim with projecting thumbrest above. Handle positioned above panel 1. Decoration like 1923.485. Translucent streaked manganese colored glass. Translucent pale green handle. Neck free blown. Body blown into a multipart mold of three or two vertical sections joined to a cup-shaped base section which included the ribbed area around the bottom (MCT I or MCT V C). Mold seams concealed within the decoration. Tip of handle drawn out thin and folded back. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Convex shoulder and convex bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Flat base with two raised concentric circles around a central knob on the underside. Bifurcated handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim with projecting thumbrest above. Handle positioned above panel 1. Decoration like Cat. No. 73.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, no. 89 (a close parallel dated to "late 1st century A.D.").

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 166, no. 74.

Exhibition HistoryCedar Rapids Museum of Art, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, September 2003-August 2005 (no catalog).