296. Jug

Condition

Most of the outside surface is covered with a marbled brown layer of weathering.

Description

Fire-polished, partly in-folded, short, conical mouth; cylindrical neck, wider toward the body; ovular body; pushed-in, tubular base-ring; flat bottom. On the bottom an annular pontil mark (W. 1.5, Th. 0.1 cm) is visible. A large strap handle with two vertical grooves is added at mid-body and ends folded underneath the rim.

Comments and Comparanda

Jugs of this ovular shape appear in the late second or third century CE (Price and Cottam 1998, pp. 161–162, fig. 71a), and they continue to be in fashion in the fourth century (Isings 1957, pp. 149–150, form 120a; Antonaras 2017, p. 121, form 83; for dip mold–blown examples, see Antonaras 2017, p. 120, form 81).

Provenance

1908, Arnold Vogell, 1857–1911 (Karlsruhe, Germany) [sold, Griechische Altertümer südrussischen Fundorts aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe (Versteigerung), Max Cramer, Cassel, Germany, May 26–30, 1908, lot 770]; 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

Cramer 1908, no. 770, plates 12, 13.

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 203, no. 569.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)