Ovoid Jug on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSecond half of fourth century

DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm); Base Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.979

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. A very few bubbles and a few tiny black specks. Transparent natural dusky yellow (5 Y 6/4). Translucent grayish green handle and coil (near 10 GY 5/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added coil. Excess glass at tip of handle drawn out thin toward interior and snapped off. Round toolmark on interior of handle where it was bent toward rim. Everted circular mouth; narrow hollow rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Shoulder strongly sloped. Oval body. Pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Angular plain coil handle applied to shoulder and attached to side and top of rim where it was folded downward and back upward to form a closed loop against the underside of the mouth. Neck coil from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IA2a with plain coil handle IA2a.