Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Body Diam: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1026

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DescriptionThis bulbous jar (classified as Jar Class IB1a) is made of medium thick, free-blown glass with added hot-tooled decoration. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The body is transparent natural dusky yellow green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 5 GY 7/2) with a translucent, similarly colored zigzag and thread. A pontil mark approximately 1.6 cm in diameter is visible. The rim is outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The deeply concave neck has a smooth, curved transition to the gently sloping shoulder. The squat spherical body has its greatest diameter at the midpoint, above a concave base. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied to the shoulder and attached to the rim, trailed on from left to right with at least twenty-two turns. On the body, a single long continuous thread, applied before the zigzag, is trailed in a large, loose zigzag twice around the body from shoulder to base, then continues as five revolutions of spiral thread from neck to base where the end is melted into the surface.