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BottleM3.50

Purple glass bottle with a white spiral design (balsamarium). The bottle is translucent purple with a translucent white spiral thread that envelopes the entire vessel. This thread was applied in the molten state and drawn upwards and downwards with a pointed instrument to create the scallop pattern. The body is spherical with a flat bottom. The neck is slender with a splayed rim.

Culture
Roman ?
Material
glass
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BottleM3.59

Bottle in fusiform alabastron. Opaque body and handles with yellow, brown and light green feathered trail pattern. The bottle has a broad and flat rim with a yellow trail at the top of the lip, a short concave neck, rounded shoulders, a fusiform body, and sides that expand to the greatest diameter near the bottom and then contract to a rounded base. Two vertical drawn ring handles with tails sit below the shoulders.

Culture
Roman ?
Material
glass
Made in
Egypt
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LampCd369

One wick lamp made of unpainted orange clay with a circular body as viewed from the top, two protruding points either side of a channel that leads to the rounded nozzle. There is a vertical tapering handle opposite the nozzle. The lamp is decorated along the top of the shoulder with an impressed band consisting of a series of concentric circles separated by dividing lines. Top surface's central field or discus is concave and encircled by a rim extending around the wick hole with two filling holes. The discus is impressed with a large bowl-like vessel or kantharos set between two oil holes.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay
Made in
Tunisia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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JugCd368

Conical shaped, grey clay jar with a cream slip. The body quickly swells from base and tapers slowly upward to a rim. Below the rim, the body swells outward forming cup-like opening. Handle attached at rim and shoulder. Horizontal concentric rings molded from clay produce undulating surface at the shoulder. The jug has no decoration.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay
Made in
Tunisia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlCd367

Unglazed coarse clay bowl with a large flange just below the rim. Inset into interior of the bowl are three rows of evenly spaced rough rock fragments. Interspersed among them are stamped square motifs consisting of rows of dots. The bowl has a small, indented base.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay and stone ?
Made in
Tunisia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerM3.39

Translucent blue glass container. A prominent rim juts out wider than the body with a tubular ring around the bottom edge. The body is rounded and slopes inwards to a small, flat tubular base. The interior bottom of the base rises in a convex bump.

Culture
Roman ?
Material
glass
Made in
Asia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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JarM3.26

Undecorated jar except for ridges on handles. Narrow neck opening, pointed base.

Culture
Roman ?
Material
clay
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LampM2.11

Lamp with a circular body as viewed from the top that is concave with concentric rings, a bas-relief design representing 10 gladiatorial arms, and a small filling hole at the centre. The nozzle flares outwards to a point on each side.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay
Made in
Cyprus ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LampM2.10

One-wick lamp with a dark orange-brown slip and an angled shoulder. The body is circular as viewed from the top with a concave indent at the centre, which is pierced by a filling hole and six bas-relief stylized palm branches. A nozzle protrudes from the front and there is a curved handle with a point at the top at the back of the lamp.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LampM2.9

Lamp with an overall almond shape and a filling hole at the top centre, a smaller wick hole at the pointed tip, and a recurved handle at the rounded end. The top surface of the lamp is entirely covered in cruciform relief decoration using chevron, herringbone and spiral designs. Fired to a brownish colour.

Culture
Roman
Material
clay
Made in
Palestine
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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