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Vessel fragment with bird and calligraphyoblique

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Vessel fragment with bird and calligraphy

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    Associated place
    Africa › Egypt › Cairo › Cairo › Fustat (find spot)
    Africa › Egypt (place of creation)
    Date
    8th century AD (AD 701 - 800)
    Associated people
    American Research Center in Egypt (established 1948) (excavator)
    Material and technique
    glass, painted with lustre
    Dimensions
    largest fragment 4.2 x 3.3 x 0.1 cm (height x width x depth)
    smallest fragment 1.7 x 0.8 x 0.1 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    processed material › glass
    Technique index
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted
    Object type index
    container › vessel
    No. of items
    27
    Credit line
    Presented by the American Research Centre, Egypt, 1974.
    Accession no.
    EA1974.44

  • Further reading

    Newby, Martine S., Glass of Four Millennia, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 25 on p. 32, illus. pp. 32 & 33 fig. 25

Glossary

lustre

  • lustre

    Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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