Fragment of Vessel
Fragment of Vessel
Place of OriginEgypt
DateNew Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III-Akenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
Dimensions2 x 3/4 x 1/8 in. (5.1 x 1.9 x 0.4 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Caroline Ransom Williams
Object number
1938.76
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of side of vessel. Opaque medium blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque white decoration. Convex curving side. On the body, opaque yellow marvered threads tooled into a festoon pattern; at the bottom of the fragment, a narrow marvered opaque white thread, also in a festoon pattern.
Label TextThis object was donated to TMA by Caroline Ransom Williams, a pioneering American Egyptologist, Toledo native, and the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Egyptology, whose scholarship and curatorial work helped shape the museum’s early collection of Egyptian antiquities.Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, catalog no. 14, p. 63, repr. (col.) p. 43.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably reigns of Amenhotep III-Akhenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
Late 6th -early 5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-fourth through early third centuries BCE
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