Squat Bulbous Jar with Three Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Three Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateLate fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm); Rim Diam (without handles): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, applied decoration and handles
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1030
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick and small bubbles. Black specks in handle and thread.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent moderate blue handles, coil, and thread (near 5 B 5/6).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm, in diameter, over reamer mark. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off. Stray thread at tip of one handle and below it on rim coil.
Rim rounded in flame. Funnel neck. Hollow shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base with low kick. Three straight coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to edge of rim.
Rim coil. On lower part of body, a zigzag thread with twenty-two segments, continuing near the middle of the body for two revolutions which partly overlay the zigzag.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I D 4 a with blue zigzag.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to early fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
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