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: 5 11/16 in. (14.4 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1291

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that broaden toward a bulge above the base and then curve down to a narrow base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The top of the dividing wall begins just below the rim and is recessed deeply into the interior. The glass is transparent pale olive (10 Y 6/2) with near dusky yellow weathering (5 Y 6/4), and the handles and thread are streaky translucent grayish-green (5 G 5/2). The vessel is made of thin glass with a visible pontil mark approximately 0.9 cm in diameter, which has been ground off. The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. A tool mark is visible on the inner edge of the basket handle at the top. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil handles are attached to the middle of the body and secured to the rim. A curved basket handle, made from a separate coil with a circular section, is applied to the top of the right side handle and attached to the top of the left side handle. Excess glass is present at the tips of the handles. Six revolutions of thread decoration are trailed on from 2.1 cm below the rim to just above the base, running upward then downward from right to left. The thread was applied before the body was pinched.