Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to end of 5th century

DimensionsH: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1300

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IIC2a, consists of two flattened tubular compartments that narrow at the waist and broaden to their greatest diameter just above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent to translucent light olive-brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4) with similarly colored handles. The vessel is made of medium thin glass, and its fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The pontil mark is approximately 2.4 cm in diameter and has been ground off. A tool mark is visible at the top of the basket handle. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil handles are applied to the middle of the body and attached to the rim, where they are folded downward/inward and upward/inward to form closed loops. A curved basket handle, made from a separate coil with a thick rounded section, is applied to the top of the right side handle and attached to the top of the left side handle. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against the tops.