Miniature Transport Amphora

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Miniature Transport Amphora

DateSecond half of the 1st century CE

DimensionsH: 4 5/16 in. (11.0 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Max Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown, tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.690

Not on View

DescriptionMiniature transport amphora made of transparent royal blue glass with one similarly colored handle and one handle tinted translucent pale olive (near 10 Y 6/2). The glass is thin, but the fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. The neck is free blown; the body was blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections (MCT VIII) with one continuous mold seam around the body. The edges of the mold are carefully aligned. The tips of the handles are drawn out thin and folded back. The everted rim is folded outward, upward, and inward. The amphora has a cylindrical neck, an elongated ovoid body with a circular cross section, and a pointed base. Two coil handles are applied to the shoulder and attached just below the rim, positioned adjacent to the mold seam. The body is decorated with twenty-seven concentric, horizontal mold-blown ridges extending from the neck to the base.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 48, no. 85 (A close parallel dated "probably late 1st-2nd century A. D.).

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 157-158, no. 64.