Condition
Severely weathered. Surface bears heavy signs of iridescence and flaking. Dark accretions cover the shoulder and neck. Fragments have been reattached near the shoulder. Small fragments are missing in this area.
Description
In-folded tubular rim; conical mouth; cylindrical neck. Horizontal shoulder, a bit squeezed on one side, and cylindrical body covered with 18 mold-blown vertical ribs. The vessel stands on a flat bottom; at the center of the bottom, an oval pontil mark (1 × 0.7 cm) is visible.
Comments and Comparanda
Mold-blown cylindrical vessels, mainly jugs, with vertical ribs are known from Syro-Palestinian sites, dated to the fourth century, and this fashion continues into the sixth century CE (Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., pp. 265–266; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 184). For parallels of mold-blown cylindrical vessels finished as jugs, see notes on cat. 187. For parallels of cylindrical ribbed vessels finished as jars, see Weinberg, Gladys D. 1988. Excavations at Jalame: Site of a Glass Factory in Late Roman Palestine. Columbia: University of Missouri Press., pp. 79–80, nos. 343–345, fig. 4-38, plate 4-15; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., p. 233, no. 119; Whitehouse, David B. 2001. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass., p. 119, no. 619; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 93, no. 110.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 180, no. 499.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)