Bulbous Jar with Two Handles

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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

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DescriptionMedium thin glass with a few small bubbles and visible blowing spirals. Transparent natural pale olive tint (near 10 Y 6/2) with translucent dusky blue green threads and handles (near 5 BG 3/2). The vessel is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.4 cm in diameter. The thread is added. Excess glass at the tip of one handle is folded up and back against the top of the handle, while on the other handle it is folded down against the exterior of the rim. The rim is rounded in flame with a wide projecting roll below. The short, straight-walled neck has a concave transition to a concave shoulder. The squat bulbous body has its greatest diameter at the midpoint and sits on a concave base with a kick. Two angular coil handles are applied to the upper part of the body and attached to the side of the rim above the projecting roll. Below the middle of the body is a blue zigzag thread with twenty-six segments, melted into the surface and continuing around the body’s middle as one and a half revolutions of thread. This vessel is classified as Jar Class I C 8 a with blue zigzags (cf. Barag 1970a, II, pl. 34, type 6.12-1).