Spherical Jar
Spherical Jar
Place of OriginRoman Empire, probably Palestine
Date4th century
DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm); Diam (body): 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1036
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DescriptionThis spherical jar (Jar Class IA2a) is free-blown and tooled using medium thin glass with sandy impurities, blowing spirals, and a few pinprick and small horizontally elongated bubbles in the rim. The glass is transparent light olive brown (5 Y 5/6), with a translucent to transparent light olive thread and pontil wad (10 Y 5/4). The collar rim is rounded in flame with an open cut-out. The short, deeply concave neck transitions to a concave shoulder and a spherical body with a concave base. On the lower body, two wavy threads are applied horizontally and pinched together at intervals to form a chain pattern. The links are large and regular where the chain begins but become smaller and irregular on the opposite side. The pontil mark is about 1.15 cm in diameter.
4th-6th century CE
5th Century
4th century CE
2nd-4th century CE
2nd century CE
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
250-150 BCE
about 3rd century CE
Mid-5th to mid-6th century
Late 4th to early 5th century
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