Double Tube with Side Handles and Looped Trails

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Looped Trails

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh 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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DescriptionTransparent to translucent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handles, trails, and thread. Pontil scar ca. 1.9 cm in diameter. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles folded back and snapped off. Medium thin glass. Some small and medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in body. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing toward waist then broadening to greatest diameter above base. Narrow base. Two angular handles applied to upper body and attached below rim where they are folded inward, downward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then inward over rim and flattened. Four looped trails, one on front and back of each compartment (set at an angle) applied just below middle of body, touched down to body four times to form four loops, attached below rim where they are folded inward, downward, upward, and outward to form a closed loop, then folded inward over rim and flattened. On body from lower body to below rim, thirteen revolutions of thread applied to lower body and trailed on from left to right. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IF2a.