Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateLate fourth through end of fifth century

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1923.1277

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DescriptionTransparent natural yellowish-green. Translucent dusky blue-green handles. Exact colors cannot be determined because of weathering. Pontil mark ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handles and snapped off. Medium thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Hollow rim folded inward and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments. Straight walls, almost imperceptibly broadening toward base. Narrow base. Two curved coil handles with tails applied above base and trailed up along side of body with eight crimps on the left side and nine crimps on the right side to ca. 2.8 cm below rim, where they are bent out into decorative loop handles which are attached below rim, then folded upward, outward, and inward over rim. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube ID2a.