Bowl / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1681
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Height: 6.9
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: CASSIANI
Full Artifact Description: Terra sigillata. The foot is broken and vended: a small piece of the rim is modern. The clay is paler than usual, and rather soft; the glaze is dull and thin, On the outside, between the rim and the flamge, the graffito CASSIANI; below the graffito IR. Fabric of East Gaul(?)
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 150-200 AD
Verbatim Provenance: Gaul
Countermark: no
Inscription Obverse Text: CASSIANI
Inscription Obverse Translation: Translation: Of Cassianus
Exhibition Title: The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World
Exhibition Curator: Allen, Marti Lu; Dix, T. Keith
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1681
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1681/0000_00_1681p02.tif

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Full citation: "Bowl; Clay (unfired)." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1681/0000_00_1681p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.