Spherical Jar with Three Handles
Spherical Jar with Three Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
DateLate fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1032
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural blue green glass. Translucent blue green handles and thread. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Collar rim, rounded in flame, above open cutout. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Spherical body. Concave base. Three angular coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to side of projecting roll and rim. One handle split during application.
Around middle of body, a zigzag thead with twenty-two segments, continuing for one revolution overlapping top of zigzag. Along edge of base, a trail of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I D 2 a with blue zigzag; cf. Barag 1970a, II pl. 34, type 6. 13-1.
Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, "Roman Glassblowing in a Cultural Context," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 103, no. 3, July 1999, p. 482, fig. 31, p. 483.Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Fourth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to fifth century
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