Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1262
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural grayish-green (5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored thread and handles. Thin glass. Numerous small and some medium-sized bubbles in body.
Free blown. Pontil mark ground off. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Rim folded inward and flattened. Flattened, wide body with two tubular compartments, with greatest diameter above base. Narrow base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper body ca. 1.7 cm below rim and attached to edge of rim.
On body from base to rim, sixteen revolutions of very thin thread. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
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