Miniature Transport Amphora
Miniature Transport Amphora
DateSecond half of the first century CE
DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Max Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.689
Not on View
DescriptionMiniature transport amphora made of transparent to translucent manganese-colored glass with two translucent pale blue handles. The thin glass contains an unintentional diagonal crack on both sides of the body. 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 everted rim is partly folded inward and downward. The amphora has a concave neck with a curved transition to the shoulder, an ovoid body, and a pointed base. Two coil handles are applied to the shoulder and attached just below the rim, positioned over the mold seam. The body is decorated with twenty-two concentric, horizontal mold-blown ridges 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. 159, no. 68.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 104.
Second half of the first century CE
Second half of first century CE
Second half of the first century CE
Second half of first century CE
First half of the first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Probably second half of the first century
Probably first century
Probably second quarter of the first century
Second quarter to mid-first century CE
Probably second half of the 1st century
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