Jar (Amphoriskos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Rhodes

Date5th century BCE

DimensionsH: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.95 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.161

Not on View

DescriptionSmall amphoriskos. Opaque medium to dark brown ground streaked with opaque red, with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Short, outsplayed rim-disk; cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; top-shaped body; circular opaque brown (streaked with opaque red) base-knob with a rounded edge and a small hole at its center. Two opaque brown vertical strap handles streaked with opaque red extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread, with an unmarvered opaque turquoise-blue thread, attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into an irregular zigzag over the shoulder where an opaque turquoise-blue thread is added, mingling with the yellow thread; below this, a third opaque yellow thread, marvered, is wound horizontally twice around the body. Glass; core-formed, trail-decorated, marvered, and tooled, with applied handles.

Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 104, p. 146, repr. (col.) p. 98.

Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 82.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 22, repr. (col.) fig. 3E, p. 23.