Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateProbably late fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 7 7/8 in. (19.8 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm); Body Diam: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.940
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles. A few black specks. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (near 10 GY 7/2). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Excess glass at tips of side handles drawn out thin and snapped off; on basket handle folded up and back along handle.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Funnel neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Elongated bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper half of body and attached to rim, where one is folded downward, inward, upward, and protrudes inward over top of rim. Pointed basket handle, made of a heavy coil with round cross section, applied to top of one handle and attached to the top of the other handle.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I F 5 a.
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fifth century
Probably fourth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Sixth to early seventh centuries
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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