Karanis / goblet / Glass

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Object Identifier
0000.00.5552
Other Number
Harden 0483
Type of Number
Catalogue Number
Object Name
goblet
Object Type
Glass vessels
Materials
Glass
Length
;
Width
;
Height
8.8 cm;
Thickness
;
Weight
;36.2g
Pierced
no
Inscribed
no
Full Artifact Description
Yellow. Mended. One small fragment missing. No weathering. Material fair. A few bubbles. Rounded rim. U-shaped body with slight concavity in sides near rim. Slender, twisted stem, pressed out at bottom with modeling tool to form outsplayed base. Base concave underneath, and on upper side criss-cross slanting impressions. Pontil technique. Body not perpendicular to stem. Trailed-on thread of similar glass on upper half of body.
Earliest Date
300
Verbatim Date
4th C or later
Unit Grid Number
0293
Component/Room
00A
Area
R
Verbatim Provenance
Egypt
Verbatim Site
Karanis
Production Site
site
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
Class Title
The Mediterranean
Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (F2018)
Food and Drink in the Middle East (F2018)
Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2019)
Food and Drink in the Middle East (F2019)
Writing and Seeing (F2019)
Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2020)
The Roman Family (W2020)
The Mediterranean (W2020)
Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2022)
The Mediterranean (W2022)
A Cosmopolitan History of Food (W2022)
Food and Drink in the Middle East (F2022)
Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2023)
The Mediterranean (W2023)
Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East (W2024)
Class Instructor
Abell, Natalie
Chatterjee, Paroma
Kashdan, Harry
Bonnell-Freidin, Anna
Hagen, Gottfried
Emberling, Geoff
Crisostomo, Jay
Beal, Scott
Davis, Katherine
Mays, Devi
Szpiech, Ryan
Tsai, Howard
Katherine Davis
Esener, Bihter
Class Department
CLCIV
MIDEAST
LHSP
HISTORY
INTLSTD
Class Number
253
303
209
341.001
125.001
197
253.001
401.005
341
Class Year
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
Class Semester
Winter
Fall
Type Category
Artifact

Technical Details

Record
0000.00.5552
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"Karanis; goblet; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5552/dsc_5421.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
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