Fragment of Vessel
Fragment of Vessel
Place of OriginEgypt, reported to have been found at Malkata (Thebes)
DateNew Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably reigns of Amenhotep III-Akhenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
DimensionsH: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.4 cm)
MediumCore-formed: applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Caroline Ransom Williams
Object number
1927.130
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of side of vessel. Opaque turquoise-blue ground with opaque white, opaque yellow, and opaque dark blue decoration. Convex curving side. Applied marvered threads tooled into a festoon pattern. Short, vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the festoons.
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, cat. no. 18, p. 63, repr. (col.) p. 43.New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III-Akenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
Probably 8th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
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