Tubular Jar with Two Handles

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Tubular Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, 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

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DescriptionThis vessel, classified as Tubular Jar IA1d, is made of thin glass with a transparent natural pale green tint; the exact color and fabric cannot be fully determined due to weathering. Blowing spirals are visible. The jar was free-blown with the pontil mark ground down. It features a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened; a tubular neck; a strongly sloped shoulder; and a slender tubular body that is widest just below the shoulder and broadens again at the base. The base is flat with a central depression. Two curved coil handles, in a similar pale green, were applied to the shoulder and attached to the neck below the rim, where they are folded downward, upward, and outward to form an open loop. Excess glass at the tips of the handles was snapped off.