Flask / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0003
Object Name: Flask
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 21.3
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Pitcher of transparent yellow-green glass. Intact. Some milky weathering. Sandy and; black impurities. Bubbles. Blowing spirals with traces of stone. Material fair. Rim flares out flat to plain rounded edge. Columnar neck widens to high shoulders. Walls taper down to small rounded bottom. Base formed with uneven coil, so that vessel will not; stand. Faint pontil mark. Ribbon handle smoothed out, attached at shoulder and folded; under rim with a sharp angle level with rim. A thick trail of glass around base of rim.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 4th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0003
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0003/1967_01_0003

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