Glass jug

Roman

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Translucent pale blue green; handle in same color.
Rim folded out, round and in, with partial vertical lip above; cylindrical neck; slightly pushed-in, horizontal shoulder; squat, square body with rounded corners at top and slightly concave sides; pushed-in bottom; strap handle with thick ribs at sides applied to shoulder, drawn up vertically, and then folded down and in onto outer edge of rim.
Fourteen roughly vertical ribs of varying lengths tooled into sides of body from shoulder to bottom.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering on exterior, some soil encrustation on interior.

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