Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Rome

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0541
Object Name: oil lamp fragment
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze
Weight: 61g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Pale buff clay with mottled brown glaze, worn especially on top. Broken top and adjoining sides of lamp. Nozzle missing. Plain rim missing on left. Raised panel at cross axis of lamp at side. Circular groove between rim and discus. Triumphal chariot, a quadriga, on discus, moving to right. Latticed sides of chariot are built high and has canopy. Ring handle, two grooves on upper half. Base missing but was set off by groove. Fragment in two pieces but mended.
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Rome
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

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Rome; oil lamp fragment; Ceramic; Glaze