Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria
DateProbably late fourth to late fifth century
DimensionsH: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.7 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1042
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale olive (10 Y 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. Irregular pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Tooled. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Rim strongly outsplayed horizontally, rounded and thickened in flame. Deeply concave neck. Concave shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base. Fourteen angular coil handles, of which six are applied to rim and attached to shoulder with a tool mark in center of lower attachment and eight are applied to shoulder and attached to rim.
On body, five irregularly spaced shallow circular indentations.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I D 10 a.
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fourth century
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