jug

Object NameJug

Made FromGlass

Date300-499

Techniqueblown, tooled, applied

SizeOverall H: 8.5 cm, Diam (max): 5.4 cm

Accession Number86.1.12

Credit LineBequest of the Estate of Martha J. Herpst

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Eastern Mediterranean; probably Syria; possibly Palestine

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green; blown, tooled; mouth finished at glory hole; applied. Jug with funnel mouth. Rim plain, rounded; mouth tapers; cylindrical neck, widening at bottom and merging with shoulder, which has rounded edge; wall splays and turns inward at bottom; plain concave base; pontil mark. Handle with circular cross-section dropped on to shoulder, pulled upward and outward and then bent in, folded and attached to side of funnel mouth. Trailed decoration: below rim, one trail applied below lip and wound counter-clockwise in six and a half revolutions around outside of mouth; on lower neck one trail wound one and a half times around circumference. Blowing spirals on body.
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