Double Tube with Zigzag and Basket Handle

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Double Tube with Zigzag and Basket Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateSixth to early seventh century

DimensionsH: 7 7/8 in. (20.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1310

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles in body. Transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2, but more yellow). Translucent dusky blue-green handles and thread. Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handle or, in one case, drawn down along lower tier of basket handle. Tool marks at tops of basket handle segments. Rim partially folded inward, partially rounded in flame. Rectangular body with four tubular compartments in a bundle. A three-dimensional triple-tiered basket handle made from at least seven coils with flattened sections: the first tier consists of one continuous coil applied to rim at a division between two compartments and attached to rim on opposite side, and a cross-element consisting of two coils applied to rim and attached to the top of the middle of the continuous coil; the second tier is similarly constructed on top of the lower tier, with a continuous coil mounted on top of the continuous coil and two half elements mounted on the two half elements below; a third tier consisting of a single continuous coil is missing. Freestanding zigzag applied to upper body from left to right, with nineteen segments between upper body and rim, continuing as wound thread for approximately six revolutions before application of a new thread was necessary. After reapplication, ca. seventeen revolutions of thread trailed on from left to right to above base. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched. CLASSIFICATION: Quadruple Tube VIIIB4a.