Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Period
Byzantine Empire
(Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)
Place of OriginRoman or Byzantine Levant
Datemid 4th-mid 5th century CE
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 5 7/16 × 2 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (13.8 × 5.4 × 8.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1908.53
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Black specks in thread and handles. Exact fabric of vessel cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread.
Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off on one side and folded back on the other.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Two curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to edge of rim where they project slightly inward.
On body, from shoulder to base, a large zigzag thread with fourteen segments.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 1 a.
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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