Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0021
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 3.5 - 4.4
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Shallow bowl of transparent yellow-green glass. Intact. Pinprick bubbles, large bubbles in bottom. Black impurities in rim and base. Blowing spirals and roping. Few areas of milky weathering. Material poor.Bowl’s tubular rim made by folding up, out and down. Walls of bowl curve out and down unevenly to a horizontal shelf and then curve into a slightly raised floor. Pad base re-worked into conical foot with diagonal tooling marks. Slight kick and pontil mark.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 5th C AD (?)
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: 161
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0021
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0021/1967_01_0021

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Full citation: "Bowl; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0021/1967_01_0021. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 10, 2024.