Glass jug 3rd-4th century A.D. Roman Small jug.Translucent pale blue green; same color handle and trail.Rim folded out, down, round, and in, and pressed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downwards; sloping shoulder; convex side to body, tapering downwards; slight kick in bottom and pontil mark; rod handle applied in a pad, tooled into an upturned pinched projection, on outer edge of shoulder, drawn up and out, tooled into a projecting fold, then drawn inwards, and folded onto top of neck, underside of mouth, and edge of rim, with another projecting fold above level of rim.Fine spiral trail applied as a large pad on neck, wound round twenty-four times down lower half of neck, shoulder, and body, and extending onto bottom; on body, seven deep vertical indents.Intact, except for slight loss to trail on shoulder; many bubbles; dulling, limy brownish weathering, and iridescence.. Glass jug 245335
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