Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0009
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 6.4 - 6.7
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Deep bell-shaped bowl of transparent yellow-green glass. Horizontal crack in upper body. Pinprick bubbles. Blowing spirals. Some milky weathering. Sandy and black impurities. Material good. Bowl’s vertical rim made by folding up, out and down. Pad base re-worked as shallow conical foot with diagonal tooling marks. Pontil mark.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 5th - 6th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0009
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0009/1967_01_0009

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