Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateLate fourth to end of fifth 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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DescriptionTransparent natural grayish-green (near 5 G 5/2). Translucent moderate green (near 5 BG 4/6) handles and thread. Pontil mark ca. 2.2 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tip of basket handle drawn back against handle. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Thin glass. A few small oval and vertically elongated bubbles in body. Black specks in handles and thread. Rim irregularly folded outward, upward, and inward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments. Straight sides. Narrow base. Two angular coil handles applied to middle of body and attached to edge of rim; a separate flat, single-tiered curving basket handle made from a thick U-shaped coil applied to the top of right side handle and attached to the top of the left handle. On body from rim to above base, fourteen revolutions of thread. Point of application was above separation point from blowpipe. Around lowest part of body, a second thread trailed on from left to right forms an irregular zigzag which overlaps lowest revolution of first thread. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.