Fragment of Jar

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Jar
Place Made: 
Egypt
Accession Number: 
59.1.36
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3 cm, W: 3.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1360-1085 BCE
Primary Description: 
Translucent greenish-blue glass, extremely bubbly with some pitting on exterior surface, trail of opaque white; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Fragment preserves rim and portion of shoulder of a jar with slightly thickened rim somewhat infolded preserving a single horizontal trail of yellow on the outside, a wide thick cylindrical neck bends out to form shoulder as far as preserved.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Color: 
Translucent greenish-blue, opaque white, yellow
Technique: 
core-formed, trail-decorated, tooled
core-forming
Inscription: 
122 H
label
: 
paper label

Publications (1)

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 71, #72, pls. 7, 37; BIB# 29547