Bulbous Jug with Spouted Mouth

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

DateSixth century?

DimensionsH: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Diam (rim): 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); Diam (body): 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Diam (base): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1203

Not on View

DescriptionThin glass. Numerous medium-sized to large vertically elongated and linear bubbles. Translucent streaky dark yellowish brown (not in Munsell chart). Similarly colored handle. Free-blown. Pontil mark of colorless natural pale green glass ca. 1.2 cm in diameter. Excess glass at tip of handle folded backward on top of handle and pinched to form a flat triangular tail. Spouted mouth; rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Tall bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Domed open pushed-in base. Curved hollow handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim where it was pinched flat. On body, seven large irregular oval indentations. CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IB2b with hollow handle IVA2d.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 50, no. 96 (A close parallel dated "about second half 3rd to early 4th century A.D.").