Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateLate fourth to end of fifth century
DimensionsH: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm); Body Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1923.1297
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Some black specks in handle. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored handles.
Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 3.3 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back against top handles. Tool mark at top of basket handle.
Hollow rim irregularly folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing slightly toward points of attachment of side handles, then straight to base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper body and attached to rim; a curved basket handle made from a separate thick coil with oval section applied to top of right side handle and attached to top and side of left side handle.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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