Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0022
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 5.4 - 7
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Shallow bowl on stem of transparent brownish-yellow glass. Intact. Pinprick bubbles, blowing spirals. Milky weathering on outside surface, iridescence mostly on inner surface. Pits due to weathering. Bowl’s tubular rim made by folding up, out and down. Walls curve down to flat floor inside and outside to a cylindrical stem. Hollow splayed foot with faint diagonal tooling marks. Faint pontil mark. Bowl distorted and uneven, making vessel lop-sided.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: ca. 5th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0022
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0022/1967_01_0022

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