Cologne / lamp / Ceramic / Glaze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1695
Object Name: lamp
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze
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

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1695
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1695/dscn5448.jpg

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Full citation: "Cologne; lamp; Ceramic; Glaze." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1695/dscn5448.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.