Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateMid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.3 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
1923.1033
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Horizontally elongated bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural grayish yellow green (5 GY 7/2). Translucent moderate blue green handles, coil, and thread (near 5 BG 4/6).
Freeblown. Pontil mark ca. 0.8 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tips of handles folded upward, backward, then clipped off.
Rim rounded in flame. Flaring circular mouth. Tall concave neck with interrupted curve. Shoulder sloping on one side, hollow on the other. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base with kick. Two angular coil handles applied to body, touched down to rim coil, and folded up along outside of rim where they are attached.
Rim coil. Around middle of body, zigzag thread with twenty-six segments, continuing onto upper part of body for two revolutions.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 3 a with blue zigzag.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
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