Triple Tube with Looped Trails

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Triple Tube with Looped Trails

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1307

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent to translucent grayish-green (5 G 5/2). Translucent similarly colored looped trails and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark with remains of pontil wad ca. 1.6 cm in diameter. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Excess glass at tips of trails clipped off. Rim folded inward and downward. Irregular three-sided body with three tubular compartments in a bundle, narrowing slightly toward waist then broadening toward base. Flat base. Vessel cannot stand because of irregular pontil wad. Five looped trails at irregular intervals around body, applied to middle of body, touched down to body three times (except for one trail which is only touched down twice) to form three loops, then attached below rim and folded inward, upward, and inward over rim. On body from below rim to above base, at least eighteen revolutions of thread from right to left, first upward, then downward. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Triple Tube IG3a.