Karanis / Flask / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5944
- Other Number
- Harden 0612
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Flask
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 14 cm;
- Height
- 21.5 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;249g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Dark green. High funnel rim, folded in and down. Cylindrical neck meeting shoulder in gentle curve. Ovoid body with greatest diameter at shoulder and sides tapering to base. Base concave. No pontil. Thick horizontal coil of similar glass near base of neck. On body 39 S-shaped corrugations from shoulder to base. No weathering. Bubbly with black impurities. Blowing spirals.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 1st - 2nd C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- C0084
- Component/Room
- 00D
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 09 - Karanis Glass
- Cosmogonic Tattoos
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Cogswell, James
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 2017
- 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
- Image Size
- 1320 x 1977
- File Size
- 101 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5944
- Link to this Item
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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-0000.00.5944/0000_00_5944p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.