jar

Object NameJar with Two Handles

Made FromGlass

Date300-599

TechniqueApplied

SizeOverall H: 11.1 cm; Diam: 5.7 cm

Accession Number65.1.12

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire; probably Syro-Palestine

Physical DescriptionVery pale green transparent, deep bluish green translucent glass (trails and handles); blown, applied. Jar shaped like pear, with two handles. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall flares to greatest diameter at roughly two-thirds of height, then curves down and in to about one-third of height, and tapers; base narrow; pontil mark. Decorated on rim with continuous thick trail and on upper wall with narrow trail wound spirally in seven revolutions. Two opposed handles, each dropped onto upper wall at bottom of spiral trail, drawn out, up, and in, and cast off to form small, slanting loop.
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