Triple Tube with Side Handles

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Triple Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 4 5/16 in. (10.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1305

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Triple Tube IC3a, consists of a wide flattened body with three tubular compartments arranged in a row. Each compartment broadens slightly toward a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is partially folded upward, inward, and downward. The glass is transparent natural grayish-green (between 10 GY 5/2 and 5 G 5/2) with similarly colored translucent coil handles. The vessel is made of thin glass with numerous slightly elongated bubbles and visible blowing spirals. The pontil mark has been ground off. The body is pinched twice lengthwise. Four angular coil side handles are applied to the upper part of the body about 2.0 cm below the rim and attached to the rim. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is clipped off.