Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateProbably late fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.944
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (near 10 GY 7/2). Translucent to opaque pale blue green handle (between 5 BG 7/2 and 5 BG 5/2). Medium thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles; handle extremely bubbly with numerous linear and pinprick bubbles.
Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm, in diameter. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin and snapped off.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Funnel neck. Sloping shoulder. Elongated bulbous body with greatest diameter above base. Concave base with kick. Looped basket handle, made of a thick coil with round cross section, applied to one side of jar and attached to the other. Ends of basket handle form side handles from below shoulder to rim, each marked off by an inward fold where they are touched down to the rim.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I F 5 a.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
3rd-5th century CE ?
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
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