Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot
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Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot
Place of OriginRome, probably Syria
DateProbably fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1061
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick and small bubbles.
Natural light green body, applied purple decoration; offset rim; constricted neck; eight purple handles extend from rim to shoulder; inverted ovoid body; circular foot, tooled out from body.
Transparent natural dusky yellow green (5 GY 5/2). Translucent moderate brown handles (near 5 YR 3/4).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Excess glass at tips of handles folded upward and back against tops of handles.
Rim rounded in flame, with open projecting roll below. Tall straight-walled neck with toolmark at its base. Sloping shoulder. Pointed body. High pushed-in base forming hollow tubular base ring. Eight angular coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down to side of cut-out, and attached to outside of rim above which they protrude slightly inward.
CLASSIFICATION Jar Class IV D 12 b
Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 82, repr. fig. 28.Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid- to second half of first century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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