The Roman glass industry reached its maturity when glass blowing was first introduced into the Roman empire in the early 1st century AD. This technique of using a hollow blow pipe had already been developed and in use a century earlier in the Syro-Palestinian region in the eastern Mediterranean. For this enabled the manufacture of an array of shapes serving as tableware and containers since glass blowing provided a previously unavailable ease to glass blowers to explore the flexibility of the technique and their own virtuosity. Appreciated for its beauty and designs, at dinners and drinking functions, glass drinking vessels replaced terracotta and bronze ones; glass eventually became ubiquitous in Roman households and commercial use. The handle was applied on the body of this jug.