Boscoreale, Villa Vona / lock with key (sera) / Bronze / Copper / Wood
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1959
- Object Name
- lock with key (sera)
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Length
- 13.9;
- Width
- 11.0;
- Height
- 7.8;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;138 g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Lock front with original nails and key(?), in fair to poor condition. Thin metal palate with similar nail with large (2.2 cm. diameter) head. The key (?) is thickly encrusted with a black and red brown mixture. Heavily corroded with blue and bright green corrosion.
- Gazda: Lock plate. Bronze.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 1st C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Boscoreale, Villa Vona
- Production Site
- site
- 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 31 - Locks & Bolts
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 234 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.1959
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1959/0000_00_1959p01.tif
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/kelsey:0000.00.1959:0000_00_1959P01.TIF
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"Boscoreale, Villa Vona; lock with key (sera); Bronze; Copper; Wood." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1959/0000_00_1959p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.