Fine jug with applied bosses

No close parallel is known to this magnificent large jug on a high conical hollow base. It belongs to the group of fine jugs produced during the fourth century CE, in both the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. Exceptional in their size, shape, and decoration, these vessels were influenced by metal prototypes. The jug is made of colorless glass with a greenish tinge. The decoration appears mainly on the body, with four rows of lozenges tooled from trails winding around the vessel. Applied plaques are set in the middle of each lozenge, impressed as rosettes. The pinched trail around the rim and other trail decorations around the neck, bottom, and base complement this elaborate ornamentation.

Credit: Gift of Sarah and Ya'akov Salomon, Haifa