Fustat / Filter / Ceramic

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1972.01.0022
Object Name: Filter
Lot: The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic
Weight: 27.5g
Pierced: 161
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Water filter with geometric pattern. Repeated triangular shapes form a grille that resembles woven or braided textiles. Hand-tooled and pierced clay (Pearls of Wisdom, Gruber; Dimmig).
Subjects: undecorated
Earliest Date: 1200
Latest Date: 1399
Verbatim Date: probably 13th - 14th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fustat
Production Site: 140
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (exhibit)
Exhibition Curator: Gruber, Christiane
Publication Title: Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan
Publication Author: Gruber, Christiane; Dimmig, Ashley
Publication Year: 2014
Class Title: Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, and Manuscripts (W2020); Visual Culture Islam (F2022)
Class Instructor: Gruber, Christiane; Göloğlu, Sabiha
Class Department: HISTART
Class Number: 490.001; 285
Class Year: 2020; 2022
Class Semester: 776; 774
Type Category: 26

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1972.01.0022
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1972.01.0022/dsc_3520.jpg

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Full citation: "Fustat; Filter; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1972.01.0022/dsc_3520.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.