Ovoid Jar with Two Handles
Ovoid Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria
DateProbably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm); Body Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1031
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tips of handles folded upward and back against top of handles.
Rim rounded in flame above narrow projecting roll. Funnel neck with curved transition to shoulder. Gently sloping shoulder. Ovoid body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper part of body and attached to side of cutout where they are folded upward over rim.
On body, tall zigzag thread from shoulder to underside of base with sixteen segments.
CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I C 6 a.
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fourth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
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