Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateMid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.1 cm); Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1059
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale olive tint (near 10 Y 6/2). Translucent dusky blue green threads and handles (near 5 BG 3/2).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm in diameter. Added thread. Excess glass at tip of one handle folded up and back against top of one handle, of the other handle folded down against exterior of rim.
Rim rounded in flame with wide projecting roll below. Short straight-walled neck with concave transition to shoulder. Concave shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base with kick. Two angular coil handles applied to upper part of body and attached to side of rim above projecting roll.
Below middle of body, a blue zigzag thread with twenty-six segments, melted into surface and continuing around middle of body as one and a half revolutions of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 8 a-with blue zigzags; cf. Barag 1970a, II, pl. 34, type 6.12-1.
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Fourth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
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