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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DescriptionThis vessel is made of thin glass with numerous pinprick and vertically elongated bubbles in the body. The glass is transparent natural dusky yellow-green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 10 GY 5/2) with similarly colored thread. The handles and trails are translucent to opaque grayish-green with an opaque white streak visible in one trail. It was free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.3 cm in diameter. A thread and handle were added, with excess glass drawn back against the top of the handle. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tubular body has slightly concave walls and a flat base with a slight depression. Two looped trails are applied to the lower body, touched down three times to form loops, and attached below the rim where they are folded to create a closed loop that extends inward over the rim. A flat, single-tiered, curving basket handle made from a separate thick coil with a squared section is attached between the trails on each side. On the middle two-thirds of the body, seven revolutions of thread are applied below the attachment point of one handle and trailed upward from left to right. This vessel is classified as a Tubular Jar IIG1a.