Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Squat Bulbous Jar with Multiple Handles
Place of OriginRome, probably Syria
DateMid-fifth to mid-sixth century
DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm); Diam (body): 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)
MediumGlass, free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1318
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent grayish yellow green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. Ring pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Excess glass at tips of handles folded upward and back against handles.
Rim rounded in flame with closed projecting roll below. Tall straight-walled neck widening slightly toward mouth; constriction at base of neck. Concave shoulder. Squat cylindrical body with sides tapering slightly toward base. Deeply concave base with kick. Eleven curved coil handles applied to shoulder, touched down below projecting roll, and attached to side of projecting roll and rim.
CLASSIFICATION Jar Class I D 12a; cf. Barag 1970a, II pl.38, type 10.16-1
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fifth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably third century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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