Karanis / Unguentarium / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6293
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Length: 4cm;
Width: 4cm;
Height: 10.9cm;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;87g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Green glass. Broken and mended. Chips on neck and body. Milky and enamel weathering. Pinprick bubbles. Black impurities. Blowing spirals. Material poor. Unguentarium. Solid outsplayed rim folded upward and inward and flattened. Cylindrical neck broadening out slightly towards its base. Solid squat body. Flat base. Pontil mark. Hollow part of vessel tapers downward.
Verbatim Date: ca. 3rd C AD
Area: Surface
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 11 - Karanis House
Exhibition Curator: Wilfong, Terry
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Graeco-Egyptian Glass: Catalogue generale des antiquities egyptiennes du Musee du Caire; Roman and Pre-Roman Glass from the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Author: Edgar, C. C. (Campbell Cowan); Hayes, J.W.
Publication Year: 1905; 1975
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 147 KB
Record: 0000.00.6293
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6293/0000_00_6293p04.tif

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