Fayoum / Flask / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.5294
Object Name: Flask
Lot: Askren, David
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 13.5
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Fairly thick glass. Rim outsplayed, then folded up, with slightly convex sides. Neck is wide and broadens out into pear-shaped body. Base concave with pontil mark. Handles, broken off, extended from shoulder to widest part of body. Fragments missing from neck and shoulder. Decoration consists of rows of lobe-shaped festoons, delineated in blue, red, and white borders. This technique effected by dragging tool vertically across colored bands within the fabric of the still-hot vessel. Repair cracks.
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 157 KB
Record: 0000.00.5294
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5294/0000_00_5294p01.tif

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Full citation: "Fayoum; Flask; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5294/0000_00_5294p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.

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