Glass jug

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless with pale blue green tinge; handle in same color.
Rim folded out, down, up, and out, forming a downward flange and stepped profile; short cylindrical neck with faint horizontal tooling marks around base; conical body, then curving inwards to low, slightly outsplayed integral foot ring; concave bottom; rod handle attached to top of body with long tail extending down side and pinched to form eight semicircular projections, drawn up, out, and round in a curve, and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim with vertical, flat thumb-rest.
Intact; few bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and thick creamy brown weathering, with small areas of soil encrustation. Inside bottle, three large solidified lumps of earth.

91.1.1321 and 91.1.1266 are very similar and may be seen as products of the same workshop. Other examples are known principally from Cyprus (see 74.51.105).

Glass jug, Glass, Roman

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