Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to end of 5th century

DimensionsH: 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1285

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments with straight sides and a narrow base. The glass is transparent natural grayish-green (near 5 G 5/2), with translucent moderate green handles and thread decoration (near 5 BG 4/6). The vessel has thin glass with a few small oval and vertically elongated bubbles in the body and black specks in the handles and thread. Blowing spirals are visible, and the pontil mark, approximately 2.2 cm in diameter, remains on the base. The rim is irregularly folded outward, upward, and inward. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil side handles are applied to the middle of the body and attached to the edge of the rim. A separate flat, single-tiered curving basket handle, made from a thick U-shaped coil, is applied to the top of the right side handle and attached to the top of the left handle. A tool mark is visible at the top of the basket handle, and excess glass at the tip is drawn back against the handle. Fourteen revolutions of thread decoration run from the rim to above the base, with a second thread trailed around the lowest part of the body forming an irregular zigzag that overlaps the lowest revolution. The point of application was above the separation point from the blowpipe. The thread decoration was applied before the body was pinched.