Miniature Transport Amphora
Miniature Transport Amphora
DateSecond half of first century CE
DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm); Max Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.686
Not on View
DescriptionTMiniature transport amphora made of translucent to transparent pale olive glass (near 10 Y 6/2) with two translucent pale blue handles. Thin glass; the fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. The neck is free-blown, while 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 rim is folded downward, outward, upward, and inward. The amphora has a cylindrical neck and an elongated ovoid body with a circular cross section and a pointed base. Two coil handles are applied to the shoulder and attached to the underside of the rim, positioned adjacent to the mold seam. The body is decorated with twenty-four concentric horizontal mold-blown ridges extending from the neck to just above the base.
Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 158-159, no. 66.Second half of the first century CE
Second half of the first century CE
Second half of the first century CE
Second half of first century CE
First half of the first century
Probably second half of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
First century
Second quarter to mid-first century CE
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