Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

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Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date4th-5th century

DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

MediumFree-blown and tooled glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1261

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DescriptionPontil mark ca. 1.1 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added thread. Transparent dusky yellow-green. Similarly colored thread. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, broadening toward base. Narrow, flattened base. Freestanding zigzag coil applied ca. 2.2 cm below rim from left to right, with sixteen segments between upper body and rim, then continuing down body from left to right, overlapping lower part of zigzag, with fifteen revolutions of straight thread to ca. 2.0 cm above base. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. Transparent dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2). Similarly colored thread.