bowl base / Ceramic / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1617
Object Name: bowl base
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Slip
Weight: 32g
Inscribed: yes
Artifact Obverse Inscription: Q POMPE Sereni I( ) Q(uinti) Pompe(ii) Sereni)
Full Artifact Description: Lower part of a bowl. The stamp Q POMPE Sereni I( ) Q(uinti) Pompe(ii) Sereni) (a potter of Pozzuoli) Underneath foot the grafittio EII. Arretine ware. Purchased in Rome.; Gazda: Interior base of a bowl. Clay, red gloss.; I; Q. POMPE; SERENI; I(?) Q(uinti) Pompe(ii) Sereni; “of Quintus Pompeius Serenus”
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Etruria
Countermark: no
Inscription Obverse Text: Q POMPE Sereni I( ) Q(uinti) Pompe(ii) Sereni)
Inscription Obverse Translation: I ( ) (slave) of Quintus Pompeius Serenus.
Exhibition Title: The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World; Case 29 - Roman Dining B Drawer Roman Banqueting
Exhibition Curator: Allen, Marti Lu; Dix, T. Keith; Gazda, Elaine
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum; The art of seals : a gallery guide : aesthetic and social dynamics of the pressed image from antiquity to the present.
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina; Root, Margaret Cool
Publication Year: 1933; 1984
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1617
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1617/dscn8133.jpg

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Full citation: "bowl base; Ceramic; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1617/dscn8133.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.