Cologne / lamp / Ceramic / Glaze
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1695
- Object Name
- lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 6.5;
- Height
- 4.3;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;89 g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Fine, almost white clay, with tan glaze. Short rounded nozzle, volutes at base, chipped at end. Circular lamp with double convex body. On upper half four heads in relief alternate with U-shaped petals. At top is filling hole and vertical grooved ring handle. Two moulded rings on circular reverse. Base and front side restored. Nozzle tip is original but so blackened it is impossible to determine original color perhaps from another lamp(?).
- Gazda: Lamp. Clay.
- Verbatim Date
- mid 2nd - early 4th C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Germany
- Verbatim Site
- Cologne
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 42 - Gaul/Germany
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Class Title
- Roman Empire in German Culture
- Spirits, Ghosts and other Spectral Beings in German Culture
- Class Instructor
- Hell, Julia
- Class Department
- Classics
- German
- Class Number
- 350
- 457
- Class Year
- 2016
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1704 x 2272
- File Size
- 134 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.1695
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