Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 5 3/4 in. (14.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1254

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DescriptionThin glass. Numerous pinprick and vertically elongated bubbles in body. Transparent natural dusky yellow-green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 10 GY 5/2). Similarly colored thread. Translucent to opaque bubbly grayish-green handles and trails with opaque white streak in one trail. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added thread. Added handle; excess glass drawn back against top of handle. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tubular body with slightly concave walls. Flat base with slight depression. Two looped trails applied to lower body, touched down to body three times to form three loops, and attached below rim where they are folded inward, downward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then inward over rim. A flat, single-tiered, curving basket handle made from a separate thick coil with squared section applied to attachment point of looped trail on one side and attached to same on opposite side. On middle two-thirds of body, seven revolutions of thread applied below application point of one handle and trailed on upward from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Jar IIG1a.