Carthage / lamp sherd / Ceramic / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0001
Object Name: lamp sherd
Lot: Delattre, Pere
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Ceramic; Slip
Design Style: Broneer, Type XXVIII (?)
Weight: 23 g
Pierced: 161
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Fragment of Christian lamp top, part of rim and discus of right side and beginning of channel leading from nozzle to discus. Moulding about top lamp and within this is raised palm or herring-bone pattern. In center of discus is Christian monogram. Hard dark red clay, polished slip of same color.; Gazda: Oil lamp fragment with cross. Clay.
Verbatim Date: 4th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Tunisia
Verbatim Site: Carthage
Production Site: 140
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: Case 43 - Carthage
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Lamps from Carthage in the Kelsey Museum, from Excavations at Carthage, Vol. 2
Publication Author: S. Sidebotham
Publication Year: 1975
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.0001
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0001/dscn5490.jpg

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Full citation: "Carthage; lamp sherd; Ceramic; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0001/dscn5490.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 03, 2024.