Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles
Bulbous Bottle with Four Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
DateMid-fourth to fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1048
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural grayish yellow green (near 5 GY 7/2). Translucent to opaque dusky blue green thread, handles, and coil-base.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off on two handles, drawn out thin and snapped off on third handle, and folded back on fourth handle.
Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just above middle. Rounded bottom with coil base. Four angular coil handles applied to shoulder and attached halfway up neck over thread decoration; the tips of three are folded up against neck, and the fourth is folded back against handle and pinched.
Around mouth, zigzag thread with thirteen segments. Over zigzag and on neck, six horizontal revolutions of thread. On body, irregular zigzag with fifteen segments.
CLASSIFICATION: Multiple handled Bottle Class IC2c-z.
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
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