Carthage? / Unguentarium / Clay (unfired) / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.7008
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: De Prorok, Byron Khun
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Clay (unfired); Slip
Width: 5.9
Height: 15.1
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Slender spindle-shaped unguentarium missing most of neck and rim. Slender preserved neck joins rounded shoulders of vase; body of vessel tapers downward until it widens at the circular base. On the underside of the base a secondary circle of clay, whose border is detached from the outer outline of the base actually serves as the foot of the vessel. Buff clay with buff slip.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Tunisia
Verbatim Site: Carthage?
Countermark: no
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.7008
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.7008/0000_00_7008p02.tif

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Full citation: "Carthage?; Unguentarium; Clay (unfired); Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.7008/0000_00_7008p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 05, 2024.