Spherical Jar with Two Handles
Spherical Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
DateProbably fourth century
DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); Body Diam: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled; handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.920
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2). Translucent dusky blue green handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm in diameter. Added thread. Tooled.
Collar rim, rounded in flame, above open cutout. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Gently sloping shoulder. Spherical body. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of projecting roll, and attached to edge of rim where they protrude slightly inward. Handles placed off center as though a third handle had been planned but was not added.
On body, six large indentations, each with a long narrow vertical tool mark. Below these, a single revolution of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 2 a.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fourth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
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