Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0025
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 4.7 - 5.2
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Small bell-shaped bowl of transparent greenish yellow glass. Intact. Bubbles, black impurities, blowing spirals, milky weathering. Bowl’s vertical rim made by folding in and up,then out and down. Wall of vessel dips down into uneven trough below rim. Vertical walls curve in to floor of bowl. Pad base re-worked into uneven splayed foot with diagonal tooling marks. Pronounced kick, pontil and reamer marks.
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: 1967.01.0025
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0025/1967_01_0025

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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-1967.01.0025/1967_01_0025. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.