Fragment / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1970.03.0845
Object Name: Fragment
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Length: 5.5
Width: 2.5
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Vessel fragment. Free blown of transparent almost colorless glass and stained. Portion of the upper wall of a bowl curving in toward rim. Decorated with head of a duck(?) in brown stain with vegetal scrolls on either side in reddish-yellow stain painted on the outside. Glass has many small bubbles.
Verbatim Date: 10th-11th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1970.03.0845
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0845/1970_03_0845

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