Tube with Two Handles
Tube with Two Handles
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date9th-11th century CE (?)
DimensionsH: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); Diam (max): 11/16 in. (1.8 cm)
MediumFormed on a core or metal rod; applied foot and handles; applied and marvered decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2195
Not on View
DescriptionVery thick glass. Fabric of green glass less bubbly than white or turquoise blue. Many small spherical bubbles in white and blue glass. Horizontal striations.
Dark green body and applied handles; opaque white and opaque turquoise decoration; cylindrical body (slightly narrower at bottom); two small handles (one lost) applied at top; decorated with two applied turquoise threads at top; four rows of white chain-like decoration; turquoise dot in center of each link; all decoration marvered in; applied circular base.
Translucent dark emerald green appearing dull opaque black with red streaks. Similarly colored disk base and handles. Opaque white thread, turquoise blue (near 5B 5/6) threads and dots.
Rod-formed. Round scar or chip on base ca. 1.0 cm. Added thread and chips melted entirely into surface and marvered.
Rim rounded in flame. Tubular body growing narrow at base. Disk base. Two small curving coil handles applied below rim and attached to upper body ca. 1.5 cm below rim.
Below rim two and a half revolutions of turquoise blue thread. On body, net pattern of zigzagging opaque white threads enclosing 12 opaque turquoise blue dots arranged in four rows (colmns?) of three dots.
CLASSIFICATION Rod-tooled III A 1 c
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
6th-5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
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