Bulbous Jar with Six Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Six Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginRoman Levant, possibly Beit Shean
Date5th century
Dimensions5 3/8 × 2 7/16 × 3 1/16 in. (13.7 × 6.2 × 7.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1916.71
Not on View
DescriptionThis bulbous jar (Jar Class I G 2 a) is free-blown and tooled from medium thin glass. The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. It is made from transparent natural green glass, with six translucent similarly colored angular coil handles. The exact color is obscured by weathering. A round basket handle made from a heavy coil with a round cross-section is applied between two opposing handles.
The vessel features a collar rim, rounded in flame with an open cutout below. The neck is jacked and transitions into a gently sloping shoulder. The bulbous body has its widest diameter at the midpoint, and the base is concave. A pontil mark (ca. 1.4 cm) is visible over a reamer mark. Excess glass at the handle tips has been folded back against the tops. Handles are hot-tooled onto the body.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Sixth to early seventh centuries
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
3rd-4th century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
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