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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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Black specks in handle. Fabric cannot be further determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handle, coils, and trails. Body blown into a patterned mold. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter; ground off. Added coils. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handle and trails drawn back against top of handle and trails. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tubular body, bulging slightly above base. Flattened knob base formed by jacking. Four looped trails applied to middle of body, touched down to body three times and attached to rim to form four loops. A flat, single-tiered, angular basket handle made from a coil with circular section applied to attachment point of one looped trail and attached to same on opposite side. On body from rim continuing onto base, narrow, vertical mold-blown corrugations, curving to right above base. Two separate coils around upper half of body from left to right. CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Jar IIG1c.