Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginPalestine

DateLate fourth to end of fifth century

DimensionsH: 4 5/16 in. (11.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1273

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DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural greenish-yellow glass. Translucent pale green handles. Exact colors cannot be determined because of weathering. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back against handles. Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments. Straight walls, almost imperceptibly broadening toward base. Narrow, flattened base. Two curved coil handles with tails applied above base and trailed up along side of body with twelve crimps on the left side and eleven crimps on the right side to ca. 1.5 cm below rim, where they are bent out into decorative loop handles which are attached to rim. The tip of the left handle is pinched to form a diagonal projection. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube ID2a.