Pozzuoli / lamp / Bronze / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1511
Object Name: lamp
Lot: Dennison, Walter
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Bronze; Copper
Length: 11.4;
Width: 4.3;
Height: 3.5;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;206 g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Bronze lamp, in fair condition. There are two nozzles, one on either side of the filling hole. A collar runs around the filling hole. There is a ring base, with lead in base. Crystaline blue-green corrosion and flakes of red-brown cover the surface.; Gazda: Lamp. Bronze.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 1st C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Pozzuoli
Countermark: no
Condition Notes: Bronze disease treatment 1972.
Exhibition Title: In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914); Case 29 - Roman Dining
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1511
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1511/dscn4757.jpg

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Full citation: "Pozzuoli; lamp; Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1511/dscn4757.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.