Karanis / Wineglass, Footed with two handles / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5950
- Other Number
- Harden 0511
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Wineglass, Footed with two handles
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Height
- 10.1 cm
- Inscribed
- 161
- Full Artifact Description
- Yellow. Intact. Contents stain ad patches of iridescence and milky weathering. Material fair. Few bubbles and some black impurities. 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 halfway down. Below greatest diameter the sides slope in again sharply toward base. Twisted stem, short and thick, and pressed out to broad base at bottom with modeling tool. Concave base, with well marked slanting impressions on upper side. Pontil technique. Several revolutions of thin spiral thread at greatest diameter of body and over this two coil handles at neck with side-whisker tails pinched to a wavy contour and reaching to just below greatest diameter.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Unit Grid Number
- C0042
- Component/Room
- 00J
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- 161
- Condition Notes
- Set aside by Angela Susak from UCLA- done
- Exhibition Title
- Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome
- Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Berlin, Andrea
- Royer, Jacqueline
- Exhibition Year
- 1983
- Publication Title
- Roman and Pre-Roman Glass from the Royal Ontario Museum
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Wondrous Glass
- Publication Author
- Hayes, J.W.
- Harden, D.B.
- Root, Margaret
- Publication Year
- 1975
- 1936
- 1982
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 136 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5950
- Link to this Item
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"Karanis; Wineglass, Footed with two handles; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5950/0000_00_5950p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.