Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
DateProbably late fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); Body Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.942
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles.
Transparent natural grayish green (5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and coil. Translucent moderate blue green thread (near 5 BG 4/6).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm, in diameter, over reamer mark. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tip of handles folded outward and upward against back of handles.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Funnel neck. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Deeply concave base with kick. Basket handle made of a heavy coil with round cross section, applied to one shoulder and attached to the other. Ends of basket handle form side handles from shoulder to rim.
Neck coil ca. 1.5 cm below rim. Around middle of body, a zigzag thread with twenty-six segments, continuing as three revolutions above and partly over the zigzag.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I F 5 a - with blue zigzag.
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
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