Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

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Double Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine, probably made in Galilee

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1274

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DescriptionThis double-tube vessel was made by free-blowing and tooling glass. The pontil scar measures approximately 2.2 cm in diameter. The body was pinched once lengthwise to form two tubular compartments. Thread decoration was added separately. The glass is medium thick with some large oval and vertically elongated bubbles in the lower body and a visible blowing spiral. The color is transparent natural grayish-green (near G 5/2), with a similarly colored applied thread. The hollow everted rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The flattened body broadens toward the base, with the top of the dividing wall recessed into the interior. The base is narrow and flattened. A freestanding zigzag coil was applied to the upper body from left to right with at least fourteen segments between the upper body and rim. At least eleven revolutions of thread encircle the body to approximately 2.5 cm above the base. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched. This vessel is classified as a Double Tube IB2a.