Double Tube with Side Handles and Looped Trails

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Looped Trails

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

Date6th to early 7th century

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1282

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IF2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments with a narrow base and a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. It is made from transparent to translucent natural pale green glass (10 G 6/2), with similarly colored handles, looped trails, and decorative threads. The glass contains small to medium vertically elongated bubbles, and a pontil scar approximately 1.9 cm in diameter is present on the base. The body was pinched once lengthwise before thread decoration was added. Two angular handles are attached to the upper body and secured just below the rim, where they are folded to form closed loops that are then flattened inward over the rim. Four looped trails—one on the front and back of each compartment—are similarly attached. Thirteen revolutions of thread decoration encircle the lower body, applied from left to right after the body was shaped.