Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown; tooled; applied decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1017

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium-thin glass in a transparent manganese-colored slightly streaky grayish red (near 10 R 4/2), with a translucent natural grayish yellow-green zigzag coil (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2). The body contains a few pinprick bubbles. The jar was free-blown and tooled, with applied decoration. A pontil mark about 1.3 cm in diameter is visible, and the excess glass at the end of the zigzag was drawn out thin and snapped off. The jar features a hollow rim, widely outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The deeply concave neck transitions to a gently sloping shoulder above a squat bulbous body with its greatest diameter at the midpoint. The base is flattened with a slight central depression. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied from the shoulder to the rim and trailed on from left to right with 16 segments, starting thin and ending thick. This form corresponds to Jar Class IB1a.