Glass jar with two handles (amphora)
Not on view
Colorless with pale yellow tinge; same color handle and ribs.
Horizontal rim, folded round and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; rounded shoulder; piriform body, tapering downwards; outsplayed tubular foot rim, made by folding; deep kick in bottom; two thin strap handles, pressed onto shoulder, with thick projecting pads below, drawn out and up, curved in, and applied to underside of mouth and rim.
On body, extending from shoulder almost to foot ring, eighteen irregular ribs, some vertical, some slanting, and other curved.
Intact; few bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence on exterior, patches of thick black weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior.
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