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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil
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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateFourth 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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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Pinprick and small spherical bubbles. Transparent natural green (not in rock color chart). Translucent similarly colored zigzag. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter, over reamer mark. Added coil. Hollow rim outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base with kick. Freestanding zigzag coil applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with 18 segments between shoulder and rim. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 1 a; cf. Barag 1970a, II Pl. 34, type 6.9

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