Sample / Alabaster

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6839
Object Name: Sample
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Inorganic specimens
Materials: Alabaster
Length: 7.9 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 2.6
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Flaky, crystalline, off-white with fine parallel and wavy veins of rusty-yellow; traces of red-brown; back side smoothed; 2 edges smoothed, one of them forming a curve. Surface dirty and nicked.
Subjects: undecorated
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.6839
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6839/0000_00_6839p02.tif

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Full citation: "Sample; Alabaster." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6839/0000_00_6839p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.