Fayoum / Dish with lid / Bronze / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1876a
Object Name: Dish with lid
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Metal vessels
Materials: Bronze; Copper
Length: ;
Width: 9.7;
Height: 7.9;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;Dish- 179.8 g, Lid- 170.1 g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Dish with cover, in fir to good condition. The bowl has a lightly incised design on the outside and has been varnished. The cover has a bell-shaped knob and two incised rings near the edge. One foot of the dish is partially missing. Stained, pitted brown surface covered with bright and dull green corrosion and soil.
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Condition Notes: Bronze disease treatment 1972.
Class Title: FYS The Roman Family (F2023); Food and Drink in the Middle East (F2023); Roman Foodways (W2024)
Class Instructor: Bonnell-Freidin, Anna; Hagen, Gottfried; Emberling, Geoff; Ness, Shannon
Class Department: HISTORY; MIDEAST; HIST
Class Number: 197.005; 209; 698
Class Year: 2023; 2024
Class Semester: Fall; Winter
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1876a
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1876a/dsc_8782.jpg

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Full citation: "Fayoum; Dish with lid; Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1876a/dsc_8782.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.