Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1292

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DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Some stone in body. Stone and black specks in handles. Transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2). Translucent similarly colored trails and lower basket handle. Streaky pale green and dusky green (near 5 G 3/2) upper basket handle. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handles. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing to a slight bulge above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two looped trails applied to lower body just above base, touched down to body three times, and attached to edge of rim. Flat double-tiered, curving basket handle made from two separate thick coils with U-shaped sections: the first, M-shaped tier applied to the top of the looped trail on the left side curved up over the mouth of the left tube, touched down to the wall between the tubes near the back rim, curved up again over the mouth of the right tube, and attached to the top of the looped trail on the right side; the second, horseshoe-shaped tier applied to the right side of the M-shaped tier and attached to the left side. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIIG2a.

Published ReferencesHarden 1970, 75, pl. XI, F.