Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles

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Squat Bulbous Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Datemid-4th to mid-5th 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

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DescriptionThis squat bulbous jar (Jar Class I C 3 a with blue zigzag) is made of medium thin glass with horizontally elongated bubbles and visible blowing spirals. The glass is transparent natural grayish yellow green (5 GY 7/2), with translucent moderate blue green handles, coil, and thread (near 5 BG 4/6). It is free-blown, with a pontil mark approximately 0.8 cm in diameter. A coil and thread were added, with excess glass at the tips of the handles folded upward, backward, and then clipped off. The rim is rounded in flame and leads to a flaring circular mouth. The tall concave neck has an interrupted curve, and the shoulder slopes on one side and is hollow on the other. The squat bulbous body has its greatest diameter at the midpoint and rests on a concave base with a kick. Two angular coil handles are applied to the body and touched down to the rim coil, folding up along the outside of the rim where they are attached. A coil encircles the rim. Around the middle of the body, a zigzag thread with twenty-six segments continues onto the upper part of the body for two revolutions.