Condition
Intact. Weathering has created a layer of bluish-purple iridescence and some cloudy white areas.
Description
In-folded, tubular rim, slightly lopsided; funnel mouth; horizontal shoulder; squat globular body; slightly concave bottom. At the center of the bottom, an annular pontil mark (W. 2.1, Th. 0.1 cm) is visible.
Comments and Comparanda
This jar belongs to an almost-generic vessel form known from many eastern Mediterranean and European sites and dated to the third and fourth centuries CE: Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., plate VII:13; Abdul Hak, Sélim. 1965. “Contribution d’une découverte archéologique récente à l’étude de la verrerie syrienne à l’époque romaine.” Journal of Glass Studies 7: 26–34., pp. 29–30, figs. 10:5–6; Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 42, type XV:16; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., pp. 79, 80, nos. 292, 294, plate 20; Sussman, Varda. 1976. “A Burial Cave at Kefar’Ara.” Atiqot 21: 92–101., p. 99, plate XXVIII:6; Barkóczi, László. 1988. Pannonische Glasfunde in Ungarn. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó., p. 206, form 181, no. 520, plates LX, CXI; Dussart, Odile. 1998. Le verre en Jordanie et en Syrie du sud. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 152. Beirut: Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient., p. 91, type B.VII.2422a, plate 18:10; Arveiller-Dulong, Véronique, and Marie-Dominique Nenna. 2005. Les verres antiques du Musée du Louvre 2: Vaisselle et contenants du Ier siècle au début du VIIe siècle après J.-C. Paris: Somogy., p. 420, nos. 1165–1167; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 194, nos. 280–281; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., p. 134, form 104.
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. 213, no. 611.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 104, 119, fig. 88.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)