Dolphin Aryballos
E7352
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E7352 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G 45 |
| Date Made | 1-299 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Glass | Bronze |
| Description | Oil flask; Greenish white glass. Globular aryballos-shaped body with metal basket-handle. 2 dolphin-like handles; dolphinflasche. See Harden, Roman Glass, p. 252, note 2. |
| Height | 15.5 cm |
| Width | 13.2 cm |
| Depth | 14.2 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
| Other Number | GL-EG (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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