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 13/16 in. (7.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1016

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium-thick glass in a transparent natural green hue (not found in the rock color chart), with a translucent zigzag coil in a similar color. The glass shows pinprick and small spherical bubbles. It was free-blown, tooled, and decorated with hot-tooled detailing. A pontil mark about 1.6 cm in diameter is visible over a reamer mark, with an added coil applied as decoration. The jar has a hollow rim, outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Its deeply concave neck transitions to a sloping shoulder above a squat bulbous body with the greatest diameter at its midpoint. The base is concave with a slight kick. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied from the shoulder to the rim and is trailed on from left to right with 18 neat segments. This form corresponds to Jar Class IB1a; cf. Barag 1970a, II Pl. 34, type 6.9.