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
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread. Thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Pontil mark ca. 1.7 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Reblown. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back against handle on left side, snapped off on the right side.
Rim rounded in flame. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, broadening to bulbous lower body. Broad, flat base. Two thin angular coil handles applied to upper body, attached below rim, then folded upward along body to edge of rim.
On body from below rim of right compartment to above base, eight revolutions of thread trailed on from right to left. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2b.
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
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