Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Tube on Foot with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date6th to early 7th century

DimensionsH: 9 15/16 in. (25.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1258

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled tube-shaped vessel is made of medium thin glass in a transparent natural grayish-green color (near 10 GY 5/2, but more yellow). The body contains some pinprick and oval bubbles in the upper section and vertically elongated bubbles in the lower section. A pontil mark about 1.5 cm wide is visible on the base. Thread decoration and handles were added separately, with excess glass at the tips drawn back against the handles. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tubular body tapers downward into a high pushed-in foot that forms a hollow tubular base ring. Four looped trails are evenly spaced around the body, each applied just above the base, touched down multiple times to form loops, and attached below the rim, folding outward and upward to form closed loops. A three-dimensional, double-tiered basket handle with two parallel cross elements is made from two separate coils with U-shaped sections; these attach diagonally across the trails and connect at the top to a perpendicular second-tier element. Around the upper body, from about 3.5 cm below the rim to the attachment points of the handles, there are at least fifteen revolutions of very thin trailed thread. The exact starting point and direction of the thread cannot be determined. This vessel is classified as Single Tube IVG1c.