Pozzuoli / wall painting fragment of fish / Plaster or mortar / Paint / Pigment
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.2836
- Object Name
- wall painting fragment of fish
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Wall paintings
- Width
- 46 cm
- Height
- 34 cm
- Thickness
- 9.5 cm
- Weight
- too heavy for lab scales
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Large orangish-red fish with scales picked out in maroon, white belly, going to blue with blue and gray bottom fins; on a platter (?) of shades of green outlined in dark purple; white background. Surface badly cracked, pitted and dirty; plastered to form a neat rectangle.
- Subjects
- Fish on platter (?)
- Earliest Date
- 100
- Latest Date
- 250
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd-early 3rd C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Pozzuoli
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Animals in the Kelsey: An Undergraduate Exhibit of Animals in the Ancient World
- Upjohn Wall Paintings (title to change)
- Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome
- Exhibition Curator
- Alcock, Susan
- Gazda, Elaine
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2016
- Publication Title
- Herculaneum et Pompeii, Vol. 1
- Wondrous Glass
- The Art of the Everyday: Objects from Ancient Daily Life
- Publication Author
- Aine, H. Roux
- Root, Margaret
- Ng, Diana
- Publication Year
- 0000
- 1982
- 2019
- Class Title
- Roman Republic
- Roman Art
- Latin 232
- Roman Kings and Emperors
- Pompeii seminar
- Pompeii
- Ancient Painting (F2017)
- UM_Dearborn Art of Everyday Objects in Ancient Greece and Rome (F2018)
- Museum Practice Seminar I (W2019)
- Special Topics In History Of Art: Ancient Roman Painting: Image And Abstraction (F2021)
- Class Instructor
- Schultz, Celia
- de Brestian, Scott
- Caston, Ruth
- Berlin, Netta
- Markus, Donka
- Stone, David
- Gazda, Elaine
- Ng, Diana
- Barham, Nicola
- Class Department
- Classics
- Central Michigan University
- Latin
- History of Art
- UM-D ARTH
- HISTART
- Class Number
- 302
- 232
- 231
- 389
- 394
- 390
- 410
- 689.004
- Class Year
- 2014
- 2015
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2021
- Class Semester
- Fall
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.2836
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2836/dscn5623.jpg
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"Pozzuoli; wall painting fragment of fish; Plaster or mortar; Paint; Pigment". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2836/dscn5623.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2023.