Karanis / Jar / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.5556
Other Number: Harden 0508
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Object Name: Jar
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Width: 9.5 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: “Poppy head” type jar. Yellow. Small rounded rim outsplayed at angle of 45 degrees from neck constriction. Wide bulbous body with sides sloping steeply downward from neck to greatest diameter half-way down. Below greatest diameter sides slope in sharply to base. Pad base, well outsplayed and almost flat below. Faint slanting impressions on upper side. Pontil technique. Thick zigzag coil of similar glass round body at greatest diameter, well fused in. No weathering. Bubbly with impurities. Blowing spirals.
Verbatim Date: ca. 5th C
Unit Grid Number: 0293
Component/Room: 00A
Area: R
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
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

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.5556
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5556/0000_00_5556p03.tif

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Full citation: "Karanis; Jar; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5556/0000_00_5556p03.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.