Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Double Tube with Side Handles and Basket Handle
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine
DateLate fourth to end of fifth 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
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent to translucent light olive-brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4). Similarly colored handles.
Pontil mark ca. 2.4 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against tops of handles. Tool mark at top of basket handle. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing at waist and broadening to greatest diameter just above base. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles applied to middle of body and attached to rim where they are folded downward/inward and upward/inward to form closed loops; a curved basket handle made from a separate coil with thick rounded section applied to top of right side handle and attached to top of left side handle.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIC2a.
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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