Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateLate fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, handles hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1037
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of side handles folded back against top of handle.
Collar rim, rounded in flame, with open cutout below. Deeply concave neck. Sloping shoulder. Bag-shaped body with greatest diameter near base. Round base. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cutout, and attached to side of rim. Curved basket handle, made of a heavy coil with round cross section, applied to top of one handle and attached to top of the other handle.
On lower part of body, a large thin zigzag thread with fourteen segments, continuing for one and a half revolutions above and over zigzag.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I F 2 a.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
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