Glass cinerary urn

Unknown

mid-1st–2nd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Everted rim, folded down, round, up, and in, forming a solid, vertical collar and upward-projecting lip; flaring mouth; short, concave neck; large, piriform body; splayed hollow foot; concave bottom; two vertical, omega-shaped handles, attached on opposite sides of upper body, each made of a thick trail, applied as a large circular pad, drawn across body from left to right, and trailed off back along top of handle. Intact; pinprick bubbles and bands of horizontal scratches on exterior of mouth and upper part of body; dulling, patches of thick creamy brown weathering, and iridescence on exterior, and brilliant iridescent weathering and soil encrustation on interior. For holding ashes of the dead.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891