Tubular Kohl Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateMid-3rd to mid-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.668

Not on View

DescriptionThis vessel, classified as Tubular Jar IA1b, is made of thin, free-blown glass with small oval and vertically elongated bubbles and visible blowing spirals. The glass is transparent to translucent manganese-colored grayish red (not in the rock color chart) with similarly colored coil handles, now missing. A pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm in diameter is visible. The jar has a flaring rim folded outward, upward, and inward, and a slender tubular body that bulges from a constriction above the base. The high pushed-in base features a central kick forming a hollow base ring.