Tubular Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

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Tubular Jar with Two Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFifth 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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DescriptionTranslucent light green glass with vertical ridges in the body. Medium thin glass. A few small and pinprick bubbles in upper body, larger vertically elongated bubbles in lower body. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles. Body blown into a patterned mold. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added handles; excess glass at tip of attachment side of basket handle drawn back along handle. Flaring hollow rim, folded outward, upward, and inward with tool mark at its base. Slender tubular body, bulging out from constriction above base. Pushed-in base with depression in center forming hollow base ring. Two curved coil handles applied to waist and attached to rim where they are folded inward, downward, and upward to form a closed loop; the coil of one side handle continues from rim to form the basket handle. On body, from rim to base, sixteen crisp vertical ribs, twisted to right at constriction above base. Somewhat cylindrical body broadening toward the bottom, standing on a round flat foot, flaring cup-shaped mouth with two lateral handles and an arched handle over the mouth. CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Jar IIB1a.