Hexagonal Jug with Unassigned Symbols

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Hexagonal Jug with Unassigned Symbols

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine, around Jerusalem

DateLate sixth to early seventh centuries

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1357

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DescriptionTransparent to translucent dark brownish-yellow. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Neck free blown. Body blown into a mold with designs in low relief on the interior. Mold seams cannot be detected. Relief crisp. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Rim ground. Short, slightly convex tubular neck, with constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder. Hexagonal body. Base slightly concave. On the body, six decorated rectangular panels with designs in intaglio; each panel bordered by recessed dots. In the panels, from left to right: 1, two concentric lozenges with a single recessed dot in their center and recessed dots in each corner of the panel; 2, stylized palm tree; 3, stylized tree; 4, two concentric lozenges without a central recessed dot but with a recessed dot in each corner of the panel; 5, stylized tree; 6, very stylized palm tree. CLASSIFICATION: Barag C I 3.

Published ReferencesBarag, Dan P., "Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem, Pts. II and III," Journal of Glass Studies 13, 1971, p. 49 (C I 3).

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 258-259, no. 176.