Carthage / lamp sherd / Ceramic / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier
0000.00.0032
Object Name
lamp sherd
Object Category
Artifact
Object Type
Lamps
Full Artifact Description
Back half of red clay, red slipped lamp. Depressed rim with raised decoration of row of fishes. Fish on discus faces solid knob-like handle. Ridge connects handle with base ring.
Gazda: Oil lamp fragment with a fish. Clay.
Subjects
fish
Materials
Ceramic
Slip
Design Style
Broneer, Type XXXI

Measurements

Weight
55 g
Height
3.6
Measurement Notes
7.6 cm x 7,6 cm x 3.4 cm

Date

Date
4th C AD

Provenance

Provenance
Tunisia
Site
Carthage

Publications and Exhibitions

Publications

Lamps from Carthage in the Kelsey Museum, from Excavations at Carthage, Vol. 2. S. Sidebotham. Ann Arbor, MI: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1975.

Exhibitions

Carthage, Then and Now. 1979.

Case 43 - Carthage. 2009.

Technical Details

Record
0000.00.0032
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0032/dscn5503.jpg

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"Carthage; lamp sherd; Ceramic; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0032/dscn5503.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2024.
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