Flask / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier
1967.01.0001
Object Name
Flask
Object Type
Glass vessels
Materials
Glass
Height
17.4
Inscribed
161
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
161
Type Category
30

Technical Details

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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"Flask; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0001/1967_01_0001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 27, 2024.
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