Karanis / Unguentarium / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.6297
- Object Name
- Unguentarium
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Materials
- Glass
- Width
- 4.8cm
- Height
- 10cm
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Toilet bottle. Green glass. Intact. Some milky and enamel weathering. Roping. Some black impurities. Bubbly. Blowing spirals. Small penetration in the solid body with enamel weathering around it. Some enamel weathering inside the horizontally outsplayed molded rim. Cylindrical neck. Constriction with tool marks at the base of neck. Solid triangular body. Flattened base with slight concavity. Pontil mark. Hollow part of vessel expands as it extends into solid body.
- Perfume bottle (unguentarium). Glass; 10 cm h., 4.8 cm base dia. (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd - 4th C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- C0063
- Component/Room
- 00M
- Area
- R:B
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Publication Title
- Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt
- Roman and Pre-Roman Glass from the Royal Ontario Museum
- Publication Author
- Hayes, J.W.
- Publication Year
- 2014
- 1975
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.6297
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6297/dscn9095.jpg
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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-0000.00.6297/dscn9095.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.