Triple Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

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Triple Tube with Freestanding Zigzag

Place of OriginRoman Empire, Palestine, probably made in Galilee

Date4th century

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1309

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DescriptionThis free-blown and tooled glass vessel, classified as a Triple Tube IB3a, consists of a flattened body with three tubular compartments arranged in a row. The tubes broaden slightly just above a narrow, flattened base. The rounded rim is folded inward and downward. The glass is transparent light olive-brown (near 5 Y 5/6) with similarly colored thread decoration. The vessel is made of medium thin glass with a few small bubbles. The pontil mark has been ground off. The body is pinched twice lengthwise. A freestanding zigzag coil is applied to the upper body from left to right, forming thirteen segments between the upper body and rim. This continues down the body with at least nine revolutions of thread ending about 1.5 cm above the base. The thread decoration was applied after the body was pinched.