Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil
Bulbous Jar with Double Zigzag Neck Coil
Place of OriginPossibly Palestine
Date4th 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
Not on View
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.
4th century
4th century
Late 4th to early 5th century
4th century
Mid-3rd to mid-4th century CE
Probably 4th century
Possibly 4th century
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