Fustat / pierced strainer / Ceramic

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1971.01.0003
Object Name: pierced strainer
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic
Weight: 73.5g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Water filter with lion design. This ceramic water filter includes a delicately carved lion set against a background of pierced rhomboids. Hand-tooled and pierced clay (Pearls of Wisdom, Gruber; Dimmig).
Subjects: Lion
Verbatim Date: 10th - 12th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fustat
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium; Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (exhibit); Case 22 - Michigan Excavations BR Drawer Fustat: Excavations in Early Islamic Egypt
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren; Gruber, Christiane; Wilfong, Terry
Exhibition Year: 2010; 2016
Publication Title: Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan
Publication Author: Gruber, Christiane; Dimmig, Ashley
Publication Year: 2014
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1971.01.0003
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1971.01.0003/dsc_3514.jpg

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Full citation: "Fustat; pierced strainer; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1971.01.0003/dsc_3514.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.