Karanis / toilet bottle / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.6263
- Object Name
- toilet bottle
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Width
- 3.5 cm
- Height
- 6.2 cm/
- Weight
- 27 g
- Inscribed
- 161
- Full Artifact Description
- Toilet bottle. Purple glass with colorless inclusions and green coil. Rim outsplayed and rounded. Green coil of glass attached below rim. Short cylindrical neck with constriction at shoulder. Inverted pirifrm body. Thick rounded, irregular base. Pontil mark. Large bubble on body. Portion of rim and pieces of body missing. Broken and repaired. Weathering on body and inside rim.
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd - 3rd C
- Area
- See RO
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- 161
- Exhibition Title
- Glass Case 1 Flr 1
- Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome
- Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (aka Urbana)
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 1989
- Publication Title
- Wondrous Glass
- Art and holy powers in the early Christian house
- Publication Author
- Root, Margaret
- Maguire, Eunice Dauterman; Maguire, Hentry P.; and Duncan-Flowers, Maggie J.
- Publication Year
- 1982
- 1989
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.6263
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6263/dscn3373.jpg
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"Karanis; toilet bottle; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6263/dscn3373.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2024.