Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Phoenicia, Palestine, or Syria
DateProbably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.934
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles. Handles bubbly with sandy impurities and large black specks.
Transparent manganese colored dusky red (near 5 R 3/4). Translucent natural dusky yellow green handles (near 5 GY 5/2).
Free-blown. Pontil mark, ca. 1.2 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Excess glass at tip of handles clipped off.
Rim rounded in flame, with narrow projecting roll below. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter above midpoint. Base flattened, with depression in center. Three angular coil handles applied to upper part of body, touched down to side of projecting roll, and attached to side of rim where they project slightly upward.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I D 11 a.
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
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