Condition
Intact; dark brown and iridescent weathering cover the interior and parts of the exterior.
Description
Rim folded out, down, and up; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulders; square body; flat bottom. A smooth strap handle of the same material is attached on the shoulder and bent at a right angle, ending at the upper neck area below the rim. Three concentric circular ridges (Diam. 1.5, 3.5, 5 cm) are faintly visible on three sides of the body—possibly remains of the mold used to shape the sides, or probably the result of the uneven cooling down of the glass. As none of the body edges are straight and the sides are quite different, the vessel may be either a crooked mold-blown product or a free-blown product.
Comparanda
Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 50a; Charlesworth, Dorothy. 1966. “Roman Square Bottles.” Journal of Glass Studies 8: 26–40., pp. 26–40; Goethert-Polaschek. Karin. 1977. Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier. Trierer Grabungen und Forschungen Band IX. Mainz am Rhein: Zabern., form 114; Matheson, Susan B. 1980. Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery., pp. 33–34, no. 95; Sorokina, Nina. 1987. “Glass Aryballoi (First–Third Centuries A.D.) from the Northern Black Sea Region.” Journal of Glass Studies 29: 40–46., pp. 55–60; Cool, Hillary E. M., and Jennifer Price. 1995. Roman Vessel Glass from Excavations in Colchester, 1971–85. Colchester Archaeological Report 8. Colchester: Colchester Archaeological Trust., pp. 84–85; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 255, no. 326; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 85, no. 97.
Provenance
1971, Royal Athena Galleries (New York, New York), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1971
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None