Flask / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0001
Object Name: Flask
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 17.4
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Two-handled bottle of transparent green tinged colorless glass. Intact. Milky and enamel weathering and iridescence. Some large bubbles. Some black impurities. Three stones in neck, slightly concave. No pontil mark. Funnel mouth with plain rounded rim and a thick horizontal trail of glass just below it. Cylindrical neck with sloping shoulders. Two opposed broad ribbon one in rim. Material good. handles attached on shoulders and pressed against mouth with bends below rim and at top of neck in a sharp S curve. Excess glass pulled up and attached to thick trail below rim. Body decorated with four sets of unevenly spaced horizontal bands of cut ornamentation.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 3rd - 4th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0001
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0001/1967_01_0001

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