Double Tube with Side Handles and Blue Zigzag

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Double Tube with Side Handles and Blue Zigzag

Place of OriginPalestine

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1304

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Double Tube IC2a, consists of two short flattened tubular compartments that broaden to their greatest diameter above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural grayish blue-green (5 BG 5/2) with a translucent dusky blue-green (5 BG 3/2) thread and opaque blackish-red (5 R 2/2) coil handles streaked with black. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with several large bubbles in the lower body and visible blowing spirals. The pontil mark is approximately 2.0 cm in diameter and has been ground off. The body is pinched once lengthwise. Two angular coil handles are applied to the middle of the body about 3.0 cm below the rim and attached to the edge of the rim. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is drawn back against the tops. A zigzag decoration encircles the lower body, forming eighteen points in either direction, and continues up the body to the rim with three revolutions of thread. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched.