Cored Glass Fragment

Object Name: 
Cored Glass Fragment

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Object Name: 
Cored Glass Fragment
Place Made: 
Egypt
Accession Number: 
59.1.11
Dimensions: 
Overall D: 3.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1700-1899
Primary Description: 
Opaque-translucent blue glass; slight pitting; cored, thread decoration, probably section of lower body on an amphoriskos; narrow zig-zag pattern in white with one yellow thread (for type, see Glass from the Ancient World, 1957, No. 5)

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Color: 
Opaque-translucent blue, yellow
Technique: 
cored, thread decoration

Publications (2)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 27; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 35, 249; BIB# 61154