Unguentarium / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1970.03.1029
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 3.8
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Miniature bottle. Free blown and cut in rather thick, translucent blue-green glass. Bottom of body cut in sharply to form solid, slightly flaring foot, flattened on bottom. No pontil mark. Body decorated with four shallow cut beveled vees, alternately upright and upside down. Around upper body, just below shoulder, five shallow half-moons, pointing down. Groove at base of cylindrical neck. Upper part of neck and rim broken away.; Cf. Lamm, Pl. 62 #17-19; Carboni, p. 120 #2.20a and p. 130 #2.31 (3000 Jahre #604 and 613); Nishapur, #200.
Verbatim Date: 9th-10th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: 161
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1970.03.1029
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.1029/1970_03_1029

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Full citation: "Unguentarium; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.1029/1970_03_1029. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 26, 2024.