Tubular Jar with Two Handles
Tubular Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
Date3rd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.666
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural pale green. Similarly colored handles. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering. Thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Blowing spirals.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ground. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles snapped off.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Tubular neck. Strongly sloped shoulder. Slender tubular body with greatest diameter just below shoulder and broadening again at base. Flat base with depression in center. Two curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to neck below rim where they are folded downward, upward, and outward to form an open loop.
CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Jar IA1d.
Probably late Roman or Byzantine period
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Late fourth through end of fifth century
4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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