Bulbous Bottle with Six Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Six Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

Date3rd-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, applied decoration and handles

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1217

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Some small vertically elongated bubbles in neck and body. Natural green body and applied decoration; cylindrical neck with spiral thread; inverted ovoid body; three rows of arched handles on neck and shoulder; circular foot. Transparent natural yellowish green (between 10 GY 4/4 and 5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.9 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handles or clipped off. Tool marks at tops of handles. Rim rounded and thickened in flame. Tubular neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just below shoulder. High pushed-in foot with hollow tubular base-ring. Six angular coil side handles applied to neck just below middle and attached to shoulder, each pair arcaded with a separate coil to make the second tier. Above this, six double-tiered side handles applied over application point of lower side handles, touched down to upper neck and attached below rim where they are folded downward/inward and upward/outward to form closed loops, then inward over rim and flattened. Around neck from above tool mark to rim, ca. 18 revolutions of thread trailed upward from left to right. CLASSIFICATION Multiple handled Bottle Class VF3a