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

DateFifth century

DimensionsH: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1301

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural grayish-green (10 GY 5/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread. Free blown. Pontil scar ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Added thread. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added handles; excess glass at both ends of handles of upper tier pinched to form diagonal projections. Tool marks on handles. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Flattened body with two tubular compartments, narrowing toward waist then straight until they curve in toward base. Narrow base. Two angular coil handles applied to upper body and attached to rim; a double-tiered curved basket handle made from two separate thick coils with U-shaped sections: the first M-shaped tier applied to top of left side handle, curved up over mouth of left compartment, touched down to wall between compartments, curved up again over mouth of right compartment, and attached to top of right side handle; the second horseshoe-shaped tier applied to left side of M-shaped tier and attached to right side. On body from just above base to edge of rim, ten revolutions of thread trailed on from right to left. Thread decoration applied before body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IIIC2a.