Glass jug

Roman

Not on view

Uncertain color (colorless?); handle in same glass.
Rim folded out, down, round, up, and in, forming collar with vertical lip above mouth; slender, cylindrical neck, with tooling marks around base; squat, globular body; small concave bottom; handle applied as a large pad with three outward claws, drawn up and out, curved in, and trailed on to top of neck with vertical thumb-rest up rim.
Intact, except for small part of rim, and crack in body; dulling and brilliant iridescence on exterior; creamy weathering on interior; some soil encrustation around handle

Glass jug, Glass, Roman

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