Tubular Kohl Jar with Two Handles

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Tubular Kohl Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateMid-third to mid-fourth centuries

DimensionsH: 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.664

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DescriptionThis vessel, classified as Tubular Jar IA1b, is made of transparent natural pale green glass (5 G 7/2) with translucent thread and handles of similar color. The jar is free-blown and tooled from thin glass with visible blowing spirals; the fabric cannot be fully determined due to weathering. It has a flaring rim folded outward, upward, and inward, and a slender tubular body that bulges slightly from a constriction above the base. The high pushed-in base forms a base ring, and the pontil mark is approximately 1.4 cm in diameter. Two curved coil handles are applied below the rim and attached to its edge. On the body, at least nineteen revolutions of added thread run from under the handles to just above the base.