Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0016
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 5.5 - 5.9
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Deep bell-shaped bowl of transparent pale amber-yellow glass. Intact. Large and pinprick bubbles. Black and sandy impurities. Blowing spirals. Material fair.; Bowl’s tubular rim made by folding inward, then up, out and down. Wall of vessel almost horizontal below rim. Pad base re-worked into splayed foot pushed up into floor of vessel. Diagonal tooling marks. Lozenge-shaped scar from pontil rod.
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: 1967.01.0016
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0016/1967_01_0016

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