Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or southern Phoenicia
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1288
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural grayish-green (near 10 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored thread and handles.
Pontil mark ground off. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against top of handle on one side, clipped off on other side. Medium thin glass. One large bubble (2.1 cm) in lower body. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Hollow everted rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened to form a broad brim. Flattened, wide body with two tubular compartments, slightly narrower at waist, then broadening to base. Dividing wall recessed deeply into interior of vessel. Narrow, flattened base. Two curved coil handles applied to upper body ca. 2.4 cm below rim and attached to edge of rim.
On body, about seventeen revolutions of thread applied below application point of one handle and trailed on left to right to base. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
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