Marble / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1970.03.1077
Object Name: Marble
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Gaming pieces
Materials: Glass
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Marble. Spherical. In mosaic technique: ribbons of canes of opaque red and narrow black, and translucent yellow-white glass set around middle two-thirds of marble’s opaque dark green matrix. Surface pitted.
Verbatim Date: 1st C BC - 1st C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1970.03.1077
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.1077/1970_03_1077

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