Karanis / Flask / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5573
- Other Number
- Harden 0568
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Flask
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Width
- 2.3 cm
- Height
- 4.8 cm
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Green tinge. Rim folded out, down and up from top of neck. Neck cylindrical with constriction at base. Body originally inverted-piriform but made roughly rectangular in section by four thumb indents in sides. Base concave. Pontil technique. Cracked and small hole in neck. Spots of milky weathering. Material fair.
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd - 3rd C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- B0055
- Component/Room
- 00C
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- Set aside by Angela Susak from UCLA- done
- Publication Title
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Wondrous Glass
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Root, Margaret
- Publication Year
- 1936
- 1982
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 138 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5573
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5573/0000_00_5573p01.tif
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"Karanis; Flask; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5573/0000_00_5573p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.