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
DescriptionThis bulbous jar (Jar Class I F 2 a) is free-blown and tooled using thin glass. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2) with translucent similarly colored handles and thread. The pontil mark is about 1.6 cm in diameter. Excess glass at the tips of the side handles is folded back against the top of each handle. The jar has a collar rim, rounded in flame, with an open cutout below, a deeply concave neck, a sloping shoulder, and a bag-shaped body with its greatest diameter near the base. The base is round. Two angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the side of the cutout, and attached to the side of the rim. A curved basket handle, made from a heavy coil with a round cross-section, is applied to the top of one side handle and attached to the top of the other. On the lower part of the body, a large thin zigzag thread with fourteen segments continues for one and a half revolutions above and over the zigzag.
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to early fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
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