Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestinian or southern Phoenician
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 in. (5.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.884
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DescriptionThis double tube is made of thin glass in a transparent natural pale green hue (10 G 6/2). The handles and thread are translucent in a similar color. Blowing spirals are visible, but the fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. A pontil mark approximately 1.7 cm in diameter is present. The body was shaped by free-blowing and tooling, including an added thread and handles. The vessel was pinched once lengthwise and reblown. Excess glass at the tips of the handles was folded back against the left handle and snapped off on the right side.
The rim is rounded in the flame. The flattened body has two tubular compartments that broaden into a bulbous lower body and rest on a broad, flat base. Two thin angular coil handles are attached to the upper body below the rim, folded upward along the body to the edge of the rim. From below the rim of the right compartment to above the base, eight revolutions of thread were trailed on from right to left. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched. Its typology corresponds to Double Tube IC2b.
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth through 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
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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