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Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle
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Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateSixth to early seventh century
DimensionsH: 6 5/8 in. (16.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Body Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, twisted, free-blown, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1257
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DescriptionThe glass is medium thin, with black specks visible in the handle. The fabric cannot be further determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2) with translucent similarly colored handle, coils, and trails. The body was blown into a patterned mold and then free-blown and twisted. The pontil mark, approximately 1.3 cm in diameter, has been ground off. Coils and handles were added, and excess glass at the tips of the handle and trails was drawn back against the tops of the handle and trails. A tool mark is visible at the top of the basket handle. The vessel has a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tubular body bulges slightly above the base. A flattened knob base was formed by jacking. Four looped trails are applied to the middle of the body, touched down to the surface three times and attached to the rim to form four loops. A flat, single-tiered, angular basket handle made from a coil with circular section is attached at the point of one looped trail and connected to the same point on the opposite side. On the body, from the rim continuing onto the base, there are narrow vertical mold-blown corrugations that curve to the right above the base. Two separate coils encircle the upper half of the body from left to right. This object is classified as Tubular Jar IIG1c.
Jar with Basket Handle
Late 4th-5th century CE

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