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Object Name2 Fragments of Bottle

Made FromGlass

Date800-999

TechniqueBody blown in mold with two vertical sections

Size(a) Body H: 8 cm, Diam: about 8 cm; (b) Neck H: 4.4 cm, Diam: 3.2 cm

Accession Number69.1.36

Credit LineGift of the American Research Center in Egypt

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

possibly Egypt; Egypt, Cairo, Fustat (excavated)

Physical Description2 Fragments of Bottle. Almost colorless, with yellowish green tinge; many bubbles. Body blown in mold with two vertical sections. Bottle: roughly bell-shaped and partly eight-sided. (b) Rim has narrow flange, with rather uneven rounded lip; upper neck has straight side, which splays; lower neck and top of shoulder are missing; (a) bottom of shoulder curves down and out, with rounded edge; wall almost vertical; base plain; pontil scar roughly circular (D. 1.1 cm). Body has decoration in relief, consisting of single octagonal register that extends from top of wall to 1.2 cm above base: arcade with eight contiguous compartments with vertical sides and pointed tops, each containing arch with vertical sides and semicircular top; between pointed tops of each pair of compartments, one tear-shaped motif. Mold seams are visible in narrow cylindrical space between register and bottom of wall, but not on underside of base.
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