Tubular Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Tubular Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateMid-third to mid-fourth centuries

DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1253

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of medium thin glass with a few medium to large bubbles and visible blowing spirals. The glass is transparent manganese-colored pale red (between 5 R 6/2 and 5 R 4/2), with a similarly colored translucent thread. It was free-blown with a pontil mark about 1.3 cm in diameter, and a thread was added as decoration. The rim is folded outward, upward, and inward. The vessel has a slender tubular body that bulges slightly above a constriction near the base. The high conical pushed-in base forms a hollow tubular base ring. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied around the neck and trails on from left to right with nine segments between the shoulder and rim. This decoration continues downward as five revolutions of thread around the body. This vessel is classified as a Tubular Jar ID1b.