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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DescriptionTransparent pale olive (10 Y 6/2) with near dusky yellow (5 Y 6/4) weathering. Streaky translucent grayish-green (5 G 5/2) handles and thread. Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm in diameter; ground off. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles. Tool mark on inner edge of basket handle at top. Thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, broadening toward bulge above base then curving down to base. Top of dividing wall begins below rim and is recessed deeply into interior. Narrow base. Two angular coil handles applied to middle of body and attached to rim; a curved basket handle made from a separate coil with circular section applied to top right side handle and attached to top of left side handle. On body from 2.1 cm below rim to just above base, six revolutions of thread trailed on, first upward then downward, from right to left. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.