Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles

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Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Period Byzantine Empire (Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)

Place of Originpossibly from Hauran, Roman or Byzantine Syria

Date4th-5th century CE

Dimensions4 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 3/8 in. (10.7 × 5.6 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.69

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles. Transparent natural grayish green (between 10 GY 5/2 and 5 G 7/2). Translucent dusky blue green handles and thread (5 BG 3/2). Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm. Added thread. Excess glass at tip of handles folded back against top of handles. Rim rounded in flame. Tall funnel neck with tool mark at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous bottle with greatest diameter at shoulder. Deeply concave base with pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Two side trails instead of handles, each with three open loops, applied to shoulder, touched down twice to neck, and attached to side of rim where they are folded inward, downward, inward, and upward to form a closed loop. On neck, ten revolutions of thread from left to right beginning below rim. CLASSIFICATION: Bottle I C 1 b.