Pointed Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Pointed Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria

DateProbably fourth century

DimensionsH: 1 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Base Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1210

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DescriptionThin glass. Transparent decolorized glass with a grayish yellow green tinge (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2). Translucent dusky blue green (5 BG 3/2) thread. Small ovoid bubbles in body. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Tooled. Rim rounded in flame. Funnel neck. Concave shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at shoulder. Sides taper to point above base, then broaden out to base. Flat base. Freestanding zigzag applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with 23 segments between rim and shoulder, at the twelfth turn pulled horizontally along neck coil and then down to shoulder. Neck coil with two revolutions from left to right. Four revolutions of thread on lower body trailed on downward from left to right. Nine irregular narrow indentations in body from shoulder to above base. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 4 a.