Karanis / Flask / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5937
- Other Number
- Harden 0534
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Flask
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- 24.3 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Pale green with green collar. Two small radiate cracks caused by blobs of impurities. Contents residue. No weathering. Very bubbly. Some bad impurities. Rim outsplayed horizontally and folded upward and inward. Neck tall and cylindrical, with constriction at base. Concavity in upper part of sides of body, which is otherwise nearly spherical. Base concave, no pontil technique. Collar on shoulder of green drawn glass with eight pinched flaps. In a row round center of body six faint vertical pinches, each ca. 3 cm long.
- Wine flask. Glass; 24 cm h., 15.25 cm w. (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
- Verbatim Date
- 3rd - 4th C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- C0042
- Component/Room
- 00F
- 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
- Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Publication Year
- 1936
- 2014
- Class Title
- Tours of the Past
- The Ancient Roman World
- Class Instructor
- Gibelyou, Cameron
- Dufallo, Basil
- Class Department
- University Courses
- UC
- Classics
- Class Number
- 300
- 102
- Class Year
- 2016
- 2017
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.5937
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5937/img_3422.jpg
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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-0000.00.5937/img_3422.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
