Mended with piece or rim missing. Red-orange clay with few particles of fine mica. Good glaze. Reserved and washed with red: grooves around central depression and rim; bottom of base ring; concentric circles of varying widths within base ring. Presumably from Pozzouli/Puteoli or Cumae.
Yellow cloth strips folded in layers around small red yarn center. Neck tied with string. Brown human hair braided and wrapped around head. Hair secured at top with string.; Doll made from five layers of what appears to be the same yellowed woven wool fabric. The five pieces were folded and wrapped around a group of red yarns. A 2-strand yarn secures the folded fragments at the doll’s “neck” by wrapping around twice and tying at the back. Brown hair, possibly human, was braided (3-strand) and wrapped around the outside layer of fabric. There are remnants of blue/black yarn that was braided with the hair at the top of the doll’s “head”. A single yarn was tied around the top two layers of woven fabric and the braided hair. Another single yarn was tied around the doll’s “neck” to help secure the braid on both sides. There are a few stitches in some of the woven fragments.
Small cylindrically-shaped head. Handle pierces center and appears to be a stalk or reed which is broken off at the bottom. Head is rough with some traces of bark.; Miniature hammer. Wood (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
Two spindle whorls on a spindle, in fairly good condition. Medium brown wood, with smooth surface except at damage spots. Decorated with two circular bands on the top and one around the side of the whorl. There is a large crack in whorl a.
Blue-green glass. Intact. Milky weathering. Black impurities. Very bubbly. Material fair. blowing spirals. Rim outsplayed horizontally, folded upward and inward and flattened on top. Cylindrical neck with slight broadening above base. Constriction and tool marks at base of neck. Triangular solid body. Flat base. Pontil mark. Body uneven.
Dark yellowish green. Rim outsplayed horizontally and folded up and in. Neck cylindrical. Body triangular. Modeling mark at base of neck. Base flat. Pontil technique with brown metallic mark of pontil. Beginnings of enamel-like weathering. Very bubbly.
Dark green. rim outsplayed horizontally and folded up and in. Neck cylindrical. Body triangular. Base flat. Pontil technique. Part of neck and rim missing. Usage scratches. No weathering. Material very bad. Full of large bubbles and patches of unfused sand.
