Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or Syria
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 5 1/4 in. (13.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1272
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural green tint. Similarly colored thread. Exact tint cannot be determined because of weathering. Two translucent dark blue-green handles (not in rock color chart).
Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm in diameter; ground off. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back against tops of handles and pinched flat.
Hollow everted rim folded upward, inward, downward, and smoothed. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, slightly narrowing toward waist. Narrow, uneven base. Two angular coil handles applied to body ca. 4.5 cm below rim and attached to edge of rim where they are folded inward, upward, and pinched to form diagonal projections.
On body from rim to base, eighteen revolutions of thread applied to top of body and trailed on from left to right. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Probably late Roman or Byzantine period
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