Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
Date4th century
DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
MediumFree-blown and tooled glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1260
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DescriptionPontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back and snapped off. Transparent natural streaky pale green. Similarly colored handles.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments. Straight walls, curving down to base. Narrow base. Two curved coil handles with tails applied above base, and trailed up along side of body with seven irregular crimps on left side and ten irregular crimps on right to ca. 2.2 cm below rim where they are bent out into decorative loop handles which are attached below rim, then folded upward and inward over rim.
Transparent natural streaky pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored handles.
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
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