Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot
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Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot
Place of OriginRoman Empire, probably Syria
DateProbably fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1061
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass with a few pinprick and small bubbles. Transparent natural dusky yellow green body (5 GY 5/2) with applied translucent moderate brown handles (near 5 YR 3/4). The vessel is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.6 cm in diameter. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is folded upward and back against the tops of the handles.
The rim is rounded in flame with an open projecting roll below. The tall, straight-walled neck shows a tool mark at its base and transitions to a sloping shoulder. The inverted ovoid body tapers to a pointed end above a high pushed-in base that forms a hollow tubular base ring. Eight angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the side of the cutout, and attached to the outside of the rim where they protrude slightly inward. This vessel is classified as Jar Class IV D 12 b.
Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 82, repr. fig. 28.Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably fifth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
Probably mid- to second half of first century
Sixth to early seventh century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
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