Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Bulbous Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome
DateMid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1067
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small bubbles. Blowing spirals. Black specks in thread.
Transparent natural grayish yellow-green (5 GY 7/2). Translucent grayish blue-green handles and thread (5 BG 5/2).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm diameter, over reamer mark. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of handles folded up and back against top of handle.
Rim rounded and thickened in flame. Funnel neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base with kick. Two coil handles applied to upper part of body and attached to side and top of rim where they are folded upward, outward, and inward to form a small closed loop.
On underside of body, irregular zigzag thread with twenty-six segments, continuing above middle of body for two revolutions that partly overlap the zigzag. On rim, zigzag with at least forty-eight segments, covered by three revolutions of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 4 a with blue zigzags.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fourth to fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Fourth century
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