Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

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Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginRome

Date2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 5 3/4 in. (14.7 cm); Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm); Diam (body): 4 in. (10.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied handle

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1178

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles, spherical in rim and body, vertically elongated in neck. Body and applied handle colorless with brownish tinge; offset rim; short neck; wide flat handle with vertical lines extends from neck to shoulder, with "fins" at end; cylindrical body. Transparent decolored glass with yellowish gray tint (5 Y 7/2). Body blown into one-part mold. No pontil mark. Excess glass at tip of handle pressed against collar. Hollow collar rim, rounded in flame, folded outward, downward, outward, upward, outward, and flattened to form a cut-out below a wide brim. Sloping shoulder lopsided opposite handle. Cylindrical body tapering slightly downward. Concave bottom. Wide flat pre-formed combed handle with nine sharp ribs between rounded edges. Cut-out below rim. On body, seven bands of parallel wheel-cut incisions consisting of five or six lines each: two bands just below shoulder, three more widely spaced bands on upper middle body, and two bands on lower body.