Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine
DateMid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1028
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Black specks in thread and handles. Exact fabric of vessel cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off on one side and folded back on the other.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Two curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to edge of rim where they project slightly inward.
On body, from shoulder to base, a large zigzag thread with fourteen segments.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 1 a.
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fourth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
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