Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Place of OriginRoman Empire, probably Syria
DateProbably late 4th to late 5th 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
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DescriptionSquat bulbous jar (Jar Class I D 10 a). Free-blown and tooled from medium thin glass with a transparent natural pale olive body (10 Y 6/2) and translucent similarly colored handles. The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. The rim is strongly outsplayed horizontally and rounded and thickened in flame. The jar has a deeply concave neck, concave shoulder, squat bulbous body with the greatest diameter at the middle, and a concave base with an irregular pontil mark about 1.3 cm in diameter. Fourteen angular coil handles are attached: six are applied to the rim and attached to the shoulder with a tool mark at the lower attachment, and eight are applied to the shoulder and attached to the rim. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is clipped off. The body has five irregularly spaced shallow circular indentations.
Mid-5th to mid-6th century
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Mid-5th to mid-6th century
Second to third quarter of 4th century CE
Late 4th to late 5th century
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Late 4th to late 5th century
Probably 4th century
Probably mid-5th to mid-6th century
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