Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, 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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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Small and medium-sized (ca. 0.5 cm) bubbles. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural pale blue green (between 5 BG 7/2 and 5 BG 5/2). Translucent similarly colored zigzag and thread. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at end of zigzag snapped off. Wide hollow rim, outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Gently sloping shoulder. Squat spherical body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base. Freestanding zigzag coil applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on twice around neck from left to right with thirty-seven continuous segments ending where it started. On body, trailed on before zigzag, from just above base to top of neck, nine and a half revolutions of thin thread. Lower revolutions almost entirely melted into surface. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 1 a; cf. Barag 1970a, II pl. 34, type 6.9-1.