Cologne / lamp / Ceramic / Glaze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1696
Object Name: lamp
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze
Length: 8.1;
Width: 5.5;
Height: 4.3;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;105 g
Inscribed: yes
Full Artifact Description: Hard tan clay with reddish glaze. Suspension lamp. Handle and small part of top restored. Rather deep rounding body. Ridge about top of lamp extends around wick hole, small projection on ridge at back and either side of lamp. Two ridges form channel on neck of fairly long rounded nozzle. Convex top is ribbed. Grooved ring handle is restored at top of lamp. Filling hole remains at right and second restored at left of handle. Base ring. Inscribed stamp.; Gazda: Suspension lamp. Clay.
Verbatim Date: 4th C AD or later
Verbatim Provenance: Germany
Verbatim Site: Cologne
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 42 - Gaul/Germany
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1696
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1696/dscn5446.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-0000.00.1696/dscn5446.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.