Spherical Jar with Two Handles
Spherical Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1035
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent grayish green handles and thread (5 G 5/2).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tip of handles clipped off.
Collar rim, rounded in flame with open cutout below. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Horizontal shoulder. Spherical body. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cutout, and attached to edge of rim.
On lower part of body, two horizontal threads joined at one point by a fine diagonal thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 2 a.
Probably fourth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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