Faience Ring

Faience Ring

 
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Object Name: 
Faience Ring
Department
Ancient
Place Made: 
Egypt
Date: 
99-1 BC or later
Color
AAT
green
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 2.3 cm
Accession Number: 
68.1.50
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dorothy Blair
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Faience ring with green glaze, some pitting and iridescent weathering. Simple ring roughly D-shaped in cross section.
Provenance
Blair, Dorothy, Source
1968
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 280, #841; BIB# 29547

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