Strap-Handled Pitcher
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Strap-Handled Juglet 2019-08-13
Name/Title
Strap-Handled PitcherEntry/Object ID
11NE-Mi24-162Description
The round rim is everted with a funnel mouth. Two trails are applied just below the rim and at the midpoint of the neck. The neck is tubular and transitions smoothly into the pear-shaped body. A strap-like handle with vertical ribs is dropped onto the body and pulled up to the rim. Excess glass from the handle is folded down against the outside of the rim and folded back up attaching to the side of the mouth with the additional excess glass sniped off at the top. The ringed foot is tubular and concave with a pontil mark. The vessel is intact with some iridescence and encrustation with an old collection label attached to the handle.Use
Serving VesselContext
Pitchers were most popular from the third to fifth centuries CE. Of the different variations of tableware, pitchers were favoured for their elegant forms as they were influenced by the silver and gold decanters of the elite classes. These vessels are often seen with strap or trailed handles, but the number of pitchers found are fewer than the number of flasks, owing to the fear of the handle breaking off. Thus, vessels without handles were more popular. These vessels were used to pour liquids at meal times. Additionally, pitchers and other glass vessels could be used in Christian religious ceremonies. At the turn of the third century, Pope Zephyrinus required that glass vessels be accepted as ritual vessels for Mass, marking that glass vessels such as this could be used as equipment upon household altars throughout the Empire.Made/Created
Date made
300 CE - 400 CETime Period
Late AntiqueEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Near Eastern - Syro-Palestine