Bulbous Jar with Two handles

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Bulbous Jar with Two handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateSecond to third quarter of 4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 7/8 in. (8.7 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm); Body Diam: 3 5/16 in. (8.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1058

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DescriptionMedium thin glass with blowing spirals visible and black specks in the thread and handles. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent natural pale green (near 5 G 7/2) with translucent dusky blue green handles and thread. The vessel is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.2 cm in diameter. The thread is added, and the excess glass at the tips of the handles is clipped off. The collar rim is rounded in flame with an open cutout below. The neck is deeply concave, transitioning into a gently sloping shoulder. The bulbous body has its greatest diameter at the middle and sits on a concave base. Two angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the side of the cutout, and attached to the side and top of the rim. Below the midpoint of the body is an irregular blue zigzag thread with thirty segments, which continues around the middle of the body as two revolutions of thread. This vessel is classified as Jar Class I C 2 a with blue zigzag decoration (cf. Barag 1970a, II, pl. 34, type 6.11-1).