Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0015
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 6.7 - 7.5
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Deep bell-shaped bowl of transparent greenish-yellow glass. Intact. Dulling. Milky enamel weathering. Sandy and black impurities. Blowing spirals with traces of stone. Bubbles. Material fair. Bowl’s vertical rim made by folding up, out and down. Wall of vessel almost horizontal below rim. Rim and upper body lop-sided. Pad base re-worked into conical foot with diagonal tooling marks. Slight kick and 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: 1967.01.0015
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0015/1967_01_0015

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