Karanis / vessel / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5553
- Other Number
- Harden 0497
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- vessel
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 10.7 cm;
- Height
- 12.8 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;282g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Dark brown with yellowish green coil. Rim outsplayed horizontally and folded upward and inward. Neck concave, shoulder sloping. Body bulbous with greatest diameter near shoulder. Pad base well outsplayed and almost flat below. Well-marked slanting impressions on base ring. Openwork zigzag coil from rim to shoulder. Nine large, vertical thumb indents round body. Hole in body. No weathering. Material good. Few bubbles and impurities, except in coil.
- Wilfong: Jar with handles. Glass.
- Verbatim Date
- 1st - 4th C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- B0061
- Component/Room
- 00D
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times
- Case 11 - Karanis House
- Exhibition Curator
- Berlin, Andrea
- Royer, Jacqueline
- Wilfong, Terry
- Exhibition Year
- 1983
- 2009
- 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
- Record
- 0000.00.5553
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5553/0000_00_5553p03.tif
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"Karanis; vessel; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5553/0000_00_5553p03.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.