Inverted Conical Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle, on Foot

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Inverted Conical Jar with Multiple Handles and Basket Handle, on Foot

Place of OriginRome, probably Syria

DateProbably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century

DimensionsH: 7 1/16 in. (18 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Diam (body): 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied handles and decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1047

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Small vertically elongated and linear bubbles. Natural bluish-green body; natural bluish-green and purple applied decoration; offset rim; constricted neck; two basket handles, one bluish-green, one purple, cross over mouth; ten decorative handles extend from rim to shoulder, alternating bluish-green with purple; inverted ovoid body, tooled while hot in large zig-zag pattern; conical foot, tooled out from bottom. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent handles and thread of similar color and handles of translucent to opaque moderate brown (near 5 YR 3/4). Free-blown. Ring pontil mark ca. 2.0 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles folded upward and back against tops of handle. Rim rounded in flame, with projecting roll below. Tall straight-walled neck with toolmark at its base. Strongly sloped shoulder. Inverted conical body. High pushed-in base with tubular base ring. Twelve angular coil handles, alternating brown and green, applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cutout, and attached to edge of rim where they protrude slightly inward. Two basket handles, the lower one green, the upper one brown, cross over rim. On body from lower handle attachments to top of foot, applied zigzag thread melted into surface. Threads can be felt as a slight convex bulge on interior. CLASSIFICATION Jar Class IV G 12 b