Miniature Transport Amphora
Miniature Transport Amphora
DateSecond half of the first century CE
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.2 cm); Rim Diam (surviving): 1 in. (2.5 cm); Max Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown in a two-part mold, tooled, with applied handles.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.687
Not on View
DescriptionMiniature transport amphora made of transparent to translucent streaked manganese-colored glass with similarly colored handles. The glass is thin but its 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), creating one continuous mold seam around the body. The edges of the mold are not carefully aligned. The tips of the handles are drawn out thin and folded back. The amphora has an everted rim, partly folded inward and downward, a cylindrical neck, an elongated ovoid body with a circular cross section, and a pointed base. Two handles—one bifurcated, the other trifurcated—are applied to the shoulder and attached halfway up the neck, positioned some distance from the mold seam. The body is decorated with twenty-six concentric horizontal mold-blown ridges extending from the neck to the base.
Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 159, no. 67.Second half of the first century CE
Second half of the first century CE
Second half of first century CE
Second half of first century CE
First half of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Probably second half of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Second quarter to mid-first century CE
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