Quadruple Tube With Side Handles
Quadruple Tube With Side Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine or southern Phoenicia
DateFourth century
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1315
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent manganese colored grayish red purple (near 5 RP 4/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and thread.
Free blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm in diameter; ground off. Body pinched twice lengthwise. Added thread. Added handles; excess glass at tips of handles clipped off.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward and then flattened. Rectangular body with four tubular compartments in a bundle, narrowing toward waist then broadening toward base. Flat base. Four angular coil side handles applied to upper body, attached to rim, then folded inward and upward.
On body between application point of handles and base, at least fourteen-fifteen revolutions of thread. Direction and point of application of thread cannot be determined. Thread decoration applied after body was pinched.
CLASSIFICATION: Quadruple Tube IC4a.
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
5th-6th century CE
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
Late fourth through end of fifth century
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