Fayoum / bowl / Calcite

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.3190
Object Name: bowl
Lot: Askren, David
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Stone Vessels
Materials: Calcite
Weight: 825g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Creamy pink-yellow bowl with incurving rim and no foot. Wavy white concentric stripes of grain. Broken and repaired.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 3100-2750 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions; Death in Ancient Egypt: Preserving Eternity; Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy
Exhibition Curator: Richards, Janet; Wilfong, Terry; Talalay, Lauren
Exhibition Year: 1995
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.3190
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3190/0000_00_3190p03.tif

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Full citation: "Fayoum; bowl; Calcite." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3190/0000_00_3190p03.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.