Fayoum / Unguentarium / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5184
- Object Name
- Unguentarium
- Lot
- Askren, David
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Width
- 4.7
- Height
- 10.2
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Unguentarium Blue-green glass. Part of rim is missing. Material fair. Black impurities and many bubbles. Some brown weathering. Rim horizontally outsplayed, folded upward and inward and flattened on top. Top of rim is bumpy. Long slightly tapered neck with a slight constriction and tool marks at its base. A triangular body with convex sides. The hollow part of the vessel tapers downward and extends slightly beyond the base of the neck into the solid body. The base is flat with a slight concavity where the pontil mark is situated.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 3rd C AD ?
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Fayoum
- Countermark
- no
- Publication Title
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Publication Year
- 1936
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 136 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5184
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5184/0000_00_5184p01.tif
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"Fayoum; Unguentarium; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5184/0000_00_5184p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.