Bulbous Jar
Bulbous Jar
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.816
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent manganese-colored streaky light brownish gray (5 YR 6/1). Perhaps intended to be decolorized.
Free-blown. No trace of pontil mark. Tooled.
Rim rounded in flame. Funnel neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Base flattened with depression in center.
On body, six irregularly spaced shallow circular indentations.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class IA4a.
REMARKS Jars of Class IA4 have a rim rounded in flame and a funnel neck. No parallel from a controlled excavation is known, but the similarity of this jar to those of Class IA5 (see acc. 23.0811) suggests that it was made in Palestine during the fourth century.
A circular discoloration on interior of base appears to be a pontil mark but is not.
Possibly fourth century
Fourth century
Fourth century
Probably fourth century
Fourth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Possibly fourth century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Possibly fourth century
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