Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0011
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 7.4 - 8.5
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Deep bell-shaped bowl of transparent yellow-green glass. Intact. Dulling. Milky enamel weathering. Pitting. Pinprick bubbles. Sandy and black impurities. Black streak on rim. Blowing spirals. Usage scratches, material poor. A hollow rim on one side only, folded out and down unevenly; rim beveled all around. Pad base re-worked as shallow uneven conical foot with diagonal tooling marks.
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: 1967.01.0011
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0011/1967_01_0011

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