Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle (Jug)
Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle (Jug)
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date2nd-3rd century CE
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 3 5/8 × 1 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (9.2 × 3.5 × 8.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1916.163
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles, spherical in body and vertically elongated in neck.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored handle.
Free blown and tooled. Concave shoulder suggests that the body was blown into a one-part mold. No pontil mark. Broad handle with four sharp ribs. Excess glass at tip of handle folded up against neck. then backward on top of handle.
Collar rim folded outward, downward, outward, and upward. Cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Concave shoulder. Cylindrical body. Flattened base.
1st-2nd Century
4th century CE
1st century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably end of third to mid-fourth century
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