Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle
Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date4th century CE
DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1177
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles in body and vertically elongated bubbles in neck.
Transparent light olive brown (5 Y 5/6). Translucent light olive handle and rim coil (10 Y 5/4).
Body blown into a one-part mold. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pre-formed handle; excess glass at tip of handle folded up against rim and back. Added coil.
Funnel mouth; rim rounded in flame. Cylindrical neck with slight taper and curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge indicating top of mold. Cylindrical body with downward taper. Low kick in base. Broad angular handle with ten low ribs from shoulder to rim coil.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 126 (variation).
Comparative ReferencesIncluded by Hayes 1975, 102 as a parallel for his nos. 363-364Second half of fourth century
Probably fourth century
Second half of fourth century
Probably Sixth Century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
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