Double Tube with Side Handles

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Double Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine or southern Phoenicia

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1290

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments with the greatest diameter just above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow everted rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural yellowish-green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 10 GY 4/4). The vessel is made of thin glass with visible blowing spirals; the fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. The pontil mark has been ground off. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two side handles are attached to the upper body approximately 3.5 cm below the rim. Nine revolutions of thread decoration spiral from about 3.2 cm above the base up to the rim. The thread was applied before the body was pinched.