Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine
DateSecond to third quarter of 4th 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
DescriptionThis bulbous jar, classified as Jar Class IC2a with a blue zigzag, was free-blown and tooled with hot-applied decoration. The medium thin glass contains small bubbles and visible blowing spirals. It is transparent natural grayish yellow green (near 5 GY 7/2) with translucent moderate blue green handles and thread. A pontil mark about 1.2 cm in diameter appears over a reamer mark. The excess glass at the tips of the handles was clipped off; on one handle, part of the excess glass is folded under and back against the outside of the rim.
The jar has a collar rim, rounded in flame, with an open cutout below. The neck is deeply concave with a smooth transition to the strongly sloped shoulder. The squat spherical body reaches its greatest diameter at the midpoint and rests on a concave base. Two angular coil handles are applied to the upper part of the body and attached to the outside of the collar. A zigzag thread with twenty-two segments encircles the middle of the body; the thread is partly melted into the body on one side.
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Second to third quarter of 4th century CE
Late 4th to late 5th century
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Late 4th to late 5th century
Probably mid-5th to mid-6th century
Probably mid-4th to mid-5th century
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Late 4th to late 5th century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Late 4th-5th century CE
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