Cologne / unguentarium / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1662
- Object Name
- unguentarium
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 2.3;
- Height
- 7.7;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;12g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Unguentarium. Small toilet or tear bottle. Colorless glass. Outsplayed rim. Undulating cylindrical body to outsplayed rim. Convex swelling at base. C .1 cm from rim. Grooved vertical impressions from rim to base. Pontil mark. Fair material, pinprick bubbles. Rim chipped, irridescence all over, a little dulling.
- Gazda: Toilet bottle. Glass, free blown.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 1st - 3rd C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Germany
- Verbatim Site
- Cologne
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome
- Case 42 - Gaul/Germany
- Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (aka Urbana)
- Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Gazda, Elaine
- Talalay, Lauren
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 1989
- Publication Title
- Wondrous Glass
- Graeco-Egyptian Glass: Catalogue generale des antiquities egyptiennes du Musee du Caire
- Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Vol I
- Art and holy powers in the early Christian house
- Publication Author
- Root, Margaret
- Edgar, C. C. (Campbell Cowan)
- Whitehouse, David
- Maguire, Eunice Dauterman; Maguire, Hentry P.; and Duncan-Flowers, Maggie J.
- Publication Year
- 1982
- 1905
- 1997
- 1989
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.1662
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1662/dscn5457.jpg
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"Cologne; unguentarium; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1662/dscn5457.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
