Double Tube with Looped Trails

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Double Tube with Looped Trails

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date6th to early 7th century

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1278

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DescriptionThis double-tube vessel was made from free-blown and tooled glass. The pontil mark has been ground off after forming. The body was pinched once lengthwise to create two tubular compartments. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with visible blowing spirals, but the fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The vessel is transparent natural yellowish-green (near 10 GY 5/2). The handles are translucent dusky blue-green (not in the rock color chart). The exact colors cannot be determined because of weathering. Two curved coil handles with tails were applied above the base and trailed up along the sides of the body with eight crimps on the left side and nine crimps on the right side to approximately 2.8 cm below the rim, where they are bent outward into decorative loop handles attached just below the rim. The handles are then folded upward, outward, and inward over the rim. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward. The flattened body has straight walls that broaden almost imperceptibly toward the narrow base. This vessel is classified as a Double Tube ID2a.