Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateSecond to third quarter of fourth century CE
DimensionsH: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1029
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural grayish yellow green (near 5 GY 7/2). Translucent moderate blue green handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off; on one handle part of excess glass is folded under and back against outside of rim.
Collar rim, rounded in flame above open cutout below. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Squat spherical body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper part of body and attached to outside of collar.
Around middle of body, a zigzag thread with twenty-two segments; thread melted into body on one side of vessel.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 2 a with blue zigzag.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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