Straight-Walled Tubular Jar with Two Handles
Straight-Walled Tubular Jar with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Palestine
DateProbably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
MediumGlass; mold-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.909
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent brownish orange (not in rock color chart). Similarly colored handles.
Body blown into a patterned mold, then expanded. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back along tops of handles and pinched.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and smoothed. Straight-walled tubular body, bulging out from constriction above base. Flattened pushed-in base with five vertical pinches at edge of hollow base ring. Two angular coil handles applied above waist and attached to edge of rim.
On body from rim to base, about 22 mold-blown vertical ribs.
CLASSIFICATION Tubular Jar IC1a
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth centuries
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Probably fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
Sixth to early seventh century
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