Unguentarium / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1970.03.1023
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 4.8
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Miniature bottle. Free blown and cut in transparent, almost colorless glass with slight pinkish tinge. Deep horizontal groove cut at bottom of body forming solid foot flattened on bottom. No pontil mark. Central body decorated with four shallow cut beveled vees separated at the bottom of the body by four elongated half-moons. In the vees four elongated half moons, and above, around the top of the body, five rounded half-moons. Most of neck broken away, bottoms of two oval facets visible on neck.; Cf. Carboni, p. 120 #2.20a (3000 Jahre #604); Lamm, Pl. 62 #12, 17-19.
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: 1970.03.1023
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.1023/1970_03_1023

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