Double Tube with Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to end of 5th century

DimensionsH: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1923.1286

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIA2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow toward the waist and broaden slightly to their widest point just above the waist. The body has a hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward, and a narrow, flattened base. The glass is transparent to translucent yellowish green (not in rock color chart) with a similarly colored handle. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with a few medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles in the body. Weathering makes the fabric difficult to determine. A pontil mark approximately 1.7 cm in diameter is ground off on the base. The body is pinched once lengthwise. A curved basket handle made from a thick coil with a circular section is attached to the rim on the right side and secured to the rim on the left side. Excess glass at the tip of the basket handle is drawn back along the handle for half its length.