RG098
Roman clear glass jar with two handles.
3rd ??? 4th century AD.
H. 6.51 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Intact.
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The jar with squat globular body, short cylindrical neck and flaring folded rim. Two uneven handles applied from the body to the rim with a fold above the rim. The body and neck decorated with swirling pinched parallel ribbing.
Rare combination of shape and ornament.
For shape see:
Hayes, J. W., Royal Ontario Museum, 1975, p.211, figs. 388, 387, 418.
For ornament see:
Whitehouse, D., Corning Museum of Glass, 2001, p.122, fig. 624.
Kunina, N., Hermitage Cllection, 1997, p. 211, cat. no. 153.
Hayes, J. W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. A Catalogue, Toronto, 1975.
Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. II, New York, 2001, p.122.
Kunina, N., Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg, ARS Publishing House, 1997.
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