Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFourth 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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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural dusky yellow green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 5 GY 7/2). Translucent similarly colored zigzag and thread. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Rim outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, 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 from left to right with at least twenty-two turns between shoulder and rim. On body, trailed on before zigzag, one long continuous thread starting at shoulder and trailed in a large careless zigzag twice around body from shoulder to base, then continuing as five revolutions of spiral thread from neck to base, where end is melted into surface. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 1 a.