Glass jug

Roman

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Colorless with bluish tinge; handle in same color.
Rim folded round and in and pressed flat into broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow horizontal shoulder; cylindrical body with side tapering slightly downwards; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil scar; handle applied in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and outwards, then turned in and folded on to underside of mouth and edge of rim with projecting trail above.
Body decorated with thirty-one regular vertical ribs.
Broken and repaired, but complete; pinprick and elongated bubbles; pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering.

Glass jug, Glass, Roman

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