Tubular Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

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Tubular Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date5th century

DimensionsH: 6 5/16 in. (16.1 cm); Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGlass; mold-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1255

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DescriptionThis vessel is made from medium thin translucent light green glass with vertical ridges on the body. There are a few small and pinprick bubbles in the upper body and larger vertically elongated bubbles in the lower body. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2) with similarly colored handles. The body was blown into a patterned mold and finished with tooling. The pontil mark measures approximately 1.3 cm in diameter. The handles were added, and excess glass at the tip of the basket handle attachment was drawn back along the handle. The vessel has a flaring hollow rim that is folded outward, upward, and inward, with a tool mark at its base. The slender tubular body bulges out above a constriction at the base and stands on a pushed-in base with a hollow base ring. Two curved coil handles are applied to the waist and attached to the rim where they are folded inward, downward, and upward to form closed loops; the coil of one side handle continues from the rim to form the arched basket handle. The body features sixteen crisp vertical ribs that twist to the right at the constriction above the base. This vessel is classified as a Tubular Jar IIB1a.