lamp / Ceramic / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0272
Object Name: lamp
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Ceramic; Slip
Design Style: Broneer, Type XXXI
Length: 12.5
Width: 8.2
Height: 3.1
Weight: 152 g
Pierced: 161
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Hard reddish clay with worn red slip. Long rounded nozzle with large wick hole. Broad channel leads to discus. Depressed rim with raised decoration, indistinct heart alternates with rectangle. Cross on discus. Two filling holes. Solid knob-like handle from which ridge extends to base ring. Traces of red and black concentric circles ornamenting cross on discus.; Marks: Nozzle discolored black.
Verbatim Provenance: Sicily
Production Site: 140
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren
Exhibition Year: 2010
Class Title: The Byzantine Empire; The Earliest Christians (W2024)
Class Instructor: Squatriti, Paolo; Muehlberger, Ellen
Class Department: History; HISTORY
Class Number: 408; 308
Class Year: 2015; 2024
Class Semester: 774
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.0272
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0272/dsc_5911.jpg

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Full citation: "lamp; Ceramic; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0272/dsc_5911.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 03, 2024.