Double Tube with Side Handles
Double Tube with Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or southern Phoenicia
DateFourth 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
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural yellowish-green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 10 GY 4/4).
Free blown. Pontil mark ground off. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles.
Hollow everted rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened, wide body with two tubular compartments, with greatest diameter above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two side handles applied to upper body ca. 3.5 cm below rim.
On body from ca. 3.2 cm above base to rim, nine revolutions of thread. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth 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
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
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