Pozzuoli / fresco fragment / Paint / Pigment / Plaster or mortar / Wood

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2729
Object Name: fresco fragment
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Stucco (molded)
Materials: Paint; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Wood
Weight: 1990 g with box
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: Vertical pink-yellow-brown colored swan (?) with upraised wings (one of which is pale aquamarine with brown touches). Faces left with neck extended, holding end of yellow and red beribboned green garland. White background. Traces of double-lined maroon frame. Plastered to form a neat rectangle.
Subjects: Bird or swan
Verbatim Date: 2nd BC-4th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Pozzuoli
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914); The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual Modern Muse; Case 25 - Roman Bath
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Herculaneum et Pompeii, Vol. 1; The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii : ancient ritual, modern muse
Publication Author: Aine, H. Roux
Publication Year: 0000; 2000
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2729
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2729/dscn1635.jpg

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Full citation: "Pozzuoli; fresco fragment; Paint; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Wood." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2729/dscn1635.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.