Bulbous Jar with Two handles
Bulbous Jar with Two handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateSecond to third quarter of fourth 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
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Blowing spirals. Black specks in thread and handles.
Transparent natural pale green (near 5 G 7/2). Translucent dusky blue green handles and thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Collar rim, rounded in flame, with open cutout below. Deeply concave neck. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cutout, and attached to side and top of rim.
Below midpoint of body, an irregular blue zigzag with thirty segments, continuing around middle of body as two revolutions of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 2 a - with blue zigzag; cf. Barag 1970a, II, pl.34, type 6.11-1.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Fourth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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