Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginPossibly Palestine

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, trailed decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1022

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DescriptionThis bulbous jar is free-blown, tooled, and decorated with hot-trailed glass. The medium thick glass contains small and medium-sized bubbles and visible blowing spirals. The body is transparent natural pale blue green (between 5 BG 7/2 and 5 BG 5/2) with a translucent similarly colored zigzag and thread. A pontil mark approximately 1.4 cm in diameter is visible. Excess glass at the end of the zigzag was snapped off. The wide hollow rim is outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The neck is deeply concave with a curved transition to the gently sloping shoulder. The squat spherical body has its greatest diameter at the midpoint. The base is concave. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied to the shoulder and attached to the rim, trailed twice around the neck from left to right with thirty-seven continuous segments ending where they began. On the body, nine and a half revolutions of thin thread were trailed before the zigzag, extending from just above the base to the top of the neck. The lower revolutions are almost entirely melted into the surface. This vessel is classified as Jar Class IB1a.