Spherical Jug on Base Ring

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Spherical Jug on Base Ring

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

DateProbably fifth century

DimensionsH: 6 in. (15.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/4 in. (4.8 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); Base Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.981

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Areas of small spherical and pinprick bubbles; a few black specks in vessel, more specks in coil and handle. Transparent pale olive (near 10 Y 6/2). Translucent grayish green handle and coil (near 10 GY 5/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tip of handle folded back. Tooled. Flaring circular mouth; rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Spherical body. Concave base with pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Straight coil handle with a central rib applied to shoulder and attached to edge of rim where it was folded upward and outward to form a horizontal closed loop; the central rib extends downward to form a tail below point of application on the body. Twelve revolutions of thick thread from right to left from bottom of neck to underside of rim. On body, ten irregularly placed and irregularly shaped oval indentations. CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IA2b with coil handle IB2ac.