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Notes:: Colorless glass with faint green tinge. Small fragment of side and base. Traces of frosting. Material good and clear with no bubbles. Rim rounded. sides rise in unbroken curve to rim, from rounded base. On the exterior, cut decoration in two divisions: (a) a frieze on the sides comprised of long oval facets flanked by grooves, and (b) is bordered and divided from (a) by four concentric wheel-cut circles.
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Notes:: Toilet bottle. Green glass. Intact. Some milky and enamel weathering. Roping. Some black impurities. Bubbly. Blowing spirals. Small penetration in the solid body with enamel weathering around it. Some enamel weathering inside the horizontally outsplayed molded rim. Cylindrical neck. Constriction with tool marks at the base of neck. Solid triangular body. Flattened base with slight concavity. Pontil mark. Hollow part of vessel expands as it extends into solid body.; Perfume bottle (unguentarium). Glass; 10 cm h., 4.8 cm base dia. (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
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Notes:: Greenish glass. Fragment of small bowl with profile intact. Dull, milky weathering, some frosting. Rounded, out splayed rim, slight raised line of glass on inside. Convex side. Ring base. Incised lines or wear marks on top of rim, below rim on outer side, and join with base.
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Notes:: Dark olive green glass. handle fragment. Rust colored weathering. Pinprick bubbles. Sandy and black impurities. White swirls in glass. Six indentations. Impressions of creasing marks on inner side. Fragments of vessel body attached.
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Notes:: Isis-Aphrodite, fully draped in floor length garment (purple) with breast knot, stands with right knee flexed, turns head to right, and grasps drapery with both hands to raise it above public area, exposing herself. Wears corruption of double crown flanked by two pine cones atop a flounced headband (pink). Hair frames face, and corkscrew curls fall to shoulders. No base. Back rather flat and unindicated. Brown clay (Muns. 7.5 Yr 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides with unmoulded back portion. No vent. Traces of paint and of paint base.; Figure of Isis-Aphrodite. Ceramic (Wilfong).
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Notes:: Small fragment of woven wool fabric with a row of countered weft-twining and two weft band sections. The background color is yellowed. The bands are red. The weft-twining is done with two colors, alternating red and yellow in each half. The weft twining loops go over and under 2 warps. One red weft band is 1 cm wide and the other is 1.2 cm wide. For approximately 0.2 cm on each side of each band the weft is indistinct in color. Possible shaded band with red fiber blended with yellowed background color. “Rainbow” style shaded stripes?
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Notes:: Small fragment of brown/gold woven wool fabric with several stitches.
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Notes:: Fragment of woven wool fabric with yellowed warp and a somewhat variegated brown and yellow weft (shaded stripes?). There is a ribbed selvedge present. Some of the weft yarns are so tightly twisted that they are kinked.
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