Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Looped Trails and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, 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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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIIG2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow to a slight bulge above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2), with translucent trails and the lower basket handle in a similar color, and the upper basket handle streaked pale green and dusky green (near 5 G 3/2). The glass is thin, with visible blowing spirals and some stone inclusions in the body, as well as stone and black specks in the handles. The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. A pontil mark approximately 1.5 cm in diameter is ground off, and a tool mark is present at the top of the basket handle. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two looped trails are applied to the lower body just above the base, touched down three times, and attached to the edge of the rim. A flat, double-tiered curving basket handle, made from two separate thick coils with U-shaped sections, is attached to the top of the looped trails. The first M-shaped tier curves up over the mouth of the left tube, touches down to the wall between the tubes near the back rim, curves up again over the right tube, and attaches to the right looped trail. The second, horseshoe-shaped tier connects to the right side of the M-shaped tier and attaches back to the left side. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against them.

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