Jug

MS5731

From: Egypt | Nubia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5731
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Egypt | Nubia
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Blown
Description

Broken below rim, rest intact. Jug ovoid with irregular finger depressions in shoulder, body and base, where hollow cone with pontil mark. Vertical handle, round in section, and threading around neck is of glass which is bluer than that of the amberish body. Small amount of very smooth iridescence.

Height 11 cm
Outside Diameter 5.9 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908
Other Number 3321? - Other Number | GL12 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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