Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle (Kohl Tube)
Date: late 4th-5th century CE
Dimensions:
handle: 2 9/16 in.
overall with handle: 5 15/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 11/16 in. (15.1 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: possibly from Hauran, Roman or Byzantine Syria
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1908.62
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in body. Some stone in handles.
Transparent to translucent light olive brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4). Similarly colored handle.
Free blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at end of continuous series of handles drawn out thin against side of vessel and snapped off. Tool mark at top of basket handle.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing at waist and bulging out above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles and a curved basket handle made of one continuous thick coil with circular section applied to middle of right compartment; touched down below rim where it is folded inward, outward, and upward to form a closed loop; curved over mouth and touched down to rim of left compartment where it is folded downward, outward, and upward to form a closed loop; and finally attached to middle half of left compartment.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.
Transparent to translucent light olive brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4). Similarly colored handle.
Free blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at end of continuous series of handles drawn out thin against side of vessel and snapped off. Tool mark at top of basket handle.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing at waist and bulging out above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles and a curved basket handle made of one continuous thick coil with circular section applied to middle of right compartment; touched down below rim where it is folded inward, outward, and upward to form a closed loop; curved over mouth and touched down to rim of left compartment where it is folded downward, outward, and upward to form a closed loop; and finally attached to middle half of left compartment.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.
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