Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateMid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Body Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.919
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm in diameter. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Rim rounded in flame with open cutout below. Short, flaring straight-walled neck. Sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter just above midpoint. Concave base with kick. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of projecting roll, and attached to edge of rim.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 8 a.
CONDITION
See also Cat. Nos.:
COLLECTIONS Thomas E. H. Curtis, Plainfield, New Jersey, no. B 599
Probably First Half of Third Century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Fourth century
First half of the first century CE
Sixth to early seventh centuries
Early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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