Karanis / Unguentarium / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5953
- Object Name
- Unguentarium
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Width
- 4.1
- Height
- 7.5
- Inscribed
- 161
- Full Artifact Description
- Green glass. Intact. Material good. Pinprick bubbles. Black impurities. Milky-pitted weathering. Outsplayed rim folded upward and inward and then flattened. Cylindrical neck broadens toward base. Constriction and tool marks at base of neck. Solid triangular body. Flat base with pontil mark. Hollow part of vessel extends into the solid body where it expands slightly.
- Verbatim Date
- 3rd C AD
- Area
- Surface
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- 161
- Publication Title
- Graeco-Egyptian Glass: Catalogue generale des antiquities egyptiennes du Musee du Caire
- Roman and Pre-Roman Glass from the Royal Ontario Museum
- Ancient and Medieval Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
- Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities
- Publication Author
- Edgar, C. C. (Campbell Cowan)
- Hayes, J.W.
- Oliver, Andrew Jr. & Bergman, Sidney M.
- Auth, Susan H.
- Publication Year
- 1905
- 1975
- 1980
- 1976
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 182 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5953
- Link to this Item
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"Karanis; Unguentarium; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5953/0000_00_5953p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.