299. Jug

Condition

Iridescence and white layer of weathering.

Description

Partly in-folded, flaring rim; short, wide, cylindrical neck; conical body; flat, slightly concave bottom. A fine trail of greenish glass is wound spirally eight times from the center of the bottom to the rim. A strap handle extends from shoulder to rim. The handle is pinched at its base to form four horizontal notches and folded twice more near the rim to create two thumb-rest tabs.

Comments and Comparanda

A plain example of this form is known from Cyprus (Lightfoot 2007, p. 81, no. 174; Lightfoot 2017, pp. 143–145, nos. 157–158). Quite similar jugs are known with trefoil mouth (Barag 1970a, vol. 2, plate 36, type VIII:13-1), some of them with globular body (Antonaras 2012, pp. 191, 192, nos. 254–257; Dussart 1998, p. 177, type B.XIV.1221, plates 60:2, 74).

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 925]; 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. 925, plates 12, 17.

von Saldern et al. 1974, p. 224, no. 657.

Exhibitions

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