Triple Tube with Side Handles

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Triple Tube with Side Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine

DateLate 4th to late 5th century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1308

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Triple Tube ID3a, consists of a flattened body with three tubular compartments arranged in a row. The tubes narrow toward the waist and broaden to their greatest diameter just above a narrow, flattened base. The hollow rim is folded inward and downward, then flattened. The glass is transparent natural grayish yellow-green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2) with similarly colored translucent coil handles and thread decoration. The vessel is made of thin glass with black specks and visible blowing spirals. The pontil mark measures approximately 1.15 cm in diameter. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The body is pinched twice lengthwise. Two thin angular coil handles with tails are applied above the base and trailed up along the sides of the body with eight crimps on the left side and seven crimps on the right side. Each handle then bends out into a decorative loop about 2.1 cm below the rim and attaches to the rim. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is snapped off. From above the base to the rim, at least fourteen revolutions of thread decoration are trailed on from right to left. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched but before the crimped handle trails were added.