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Catalogue

577. Earplug

Accession Number 2003.156
Dimensions H. 2.6, Diam. rim 1.3 cm; Wt. 2.44 g
Date Late Eighteenth to Nineteenth Dynasty; mid-fourteenth to mid-thirteenth century BCE
Production Area Egypt
Material Opaque white and yellow and translucent amber-colored glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Rod formed
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Condition

Fully preserved, with some encrustation visible near the top.

Description

In the form of a papyrus column; hollow. Flaring rim/capital; cylindrical body, wider toward the lower part; convex base. A white thread is wound spirally around the body seven times. A yellow thread is wound around the edge of the rim and another one twice around the bottom area. In the interior of the body a small remainder of the bronze wire is visible through the center.

Comments and Comparanda

See cat. 576.

Provenance

By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003

Bibliography

, p. 31, no. 39.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)