Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil and Basket Handle

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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateLate fourth to early fifth century

DimensionsH: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); Diam (body): 4 in. (10.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown; tooled; applied decoration and handle.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1027

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous pinprick and small bubbles. Body colorless with greenish tinge; applied dark greenish-blue decoration and handle; offset rim; basket handle; constricted neck; applied zig-zag thread extends from rim to shoulder; flattened spherical body; body decorated with applied thin spiral thread, three rows of applied zig-zag decoration. Transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2). Translucent dusky green handle, coil and thread (near 5 G 3/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at tips of handles and at end of zigzag drawn out thin and snapped off. Collar rim, rounded in flame, above open cutcut. Deeply concave neck. Sloping shoulder. Elongated bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Concave base with kick. Curved basket handle made of a heavy coil, round in cross section, applied to top and exterior of rim of one side of vessel and attached to rim on opposite side. Regular, freestanding zigzag coil applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with twenty-two segments between shoulder and rim. On body, from base to mouth, three rows of zigzags and five revolutions of thread trailed on horizontally from right to left in six separate threads: one thread for lowest zigzag, a second thread for revolution, a third for middle zigzag, a fourth for end of middle zigzag and continuing as revolution, a fifth for top zigzag, and a sixth for top three revolutions. CLASSIFICATION Jar Class I E 2 a with blue zigzags