Tubular Kohl Jar with Two Handles

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Tubular Kohl Jar with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine

DateThird century

DimensionsH: 5 5/16 in. (15 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown, tooled, applied handles.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.908

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DescriptionTransparent manganese-colored grayish-red (10 R 4/2). Translucent similarly colored handles. Medium thin glass. A few small bubbles. Body probably blown into a patterned mold. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm in diameter. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn out along rim and snapped off. Flaring hollow rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical body, with pronounced bulge above constriction at base. High conical pushed-in base forming hollow tubular base ring. Two curved coil handles applied ca. 4.0 cm below rim and attached to rim where they are folded inward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then drawn up against rim. On body, from top of rim to constriction above base, six crisp vertical ribs, gradually losing their crispness and disappearing into the bulge above the base. CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Jar IA1b.