Unguentarium / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1970.03.0997
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 4.1
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Miniature bottle. Free blown and cut of thick transparent pale grayish-green glass. Bottom of body cut in sharply to form solid flaring foot, flattened on bottom. No pontil mark. Body decorated with four shallow cut vees, alternately upright and upside down. Shoulder rounded. Neck broken away.; Cf. Carboni, p. 120 #2.20c and p. 128 #2.30d; Lamm, Pl. 62 #16-19.
Verbatim Date: 9th-10th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1970.03.0997
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0997/1970_03_0997

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