Tubular Jar with Two Handles

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Tubular Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.667

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DescriptionThis vessel, classified as Tubular Jar IA1d, is made of thin glass with a transparent natural green tint; the exact color and fabric cannot be fully determined due to weathering. The jar was free-blown with a visible pontil mark about 1.2 cm in diameter. Its rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and slightly flattened. It has a slender tubular body with a slight bulge at the shoulder and a base that broadens slightly. The flat base has a depression at the center. Two angular coil handles of pale green glass were added, applied to the shoulder and attached below the rim where they are folded downward and inward then upward and outward to form a closed loop. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is folded under.