Double Tube with Side Handles and Blue Zigzag
Double Tube with Side Handles and Blue Zigzag
Place of OriginPalestine
DateFourth 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
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural grayish blue-green (5 BG 5/2). Translucent dusky blue-green (5 BG 3/2) thread. Opaque blackish-red (5 R 2/2) handles with black streaks.
Pontil mark ca. 2.0 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched once lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against tops of handles. Medium thin glass. Several large bubbles in lower body. Blowing spirals.
Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Short flattened body with two tubular compartments, broadening to greatest diameter above base. Top of dividing wall recesses slightly into interior. Narrow, flattened base. Two angular coil handles applied to middle of body ca. 3.0 cm below rim and attached to edge of rim.
Zigzag around lower body with eighteen points in either direction continuing up body to rim with three revolutions of thread. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Double Tube IC2a.
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
Late fourth to end of fifth century
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