Karanis / lamp, conical / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5545
- Other Number
- Harden 440
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- lamp, conical
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- 9.2 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;58g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Dark greenish yellow with blue blobs. Small chip out of rim. No weathering. Material fair. Blobs bubbly. Unworked rim, bent outward from top of side. Sides taper downward with slight convexity. Point of base flattened slightly by pressure. One group of wheel incisions near rim, and below them a horizontal frieze of blue blobs consisting of three small ones in a group ad one large one, alternating, and each repeated three times.
- Verbatim Date
- 4th cent. AD
- Unit Grid Number
- 0137
- Component/Room
- 00D
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Glass Case 1 Flr 1
- Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (aka Urbana)
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 1989
- Publication Title
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Wondrous Glass
- Art and holy powers in the early Christian house
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Root, Margaret
- Maguire, Eunice Dauterman; Maguire, Hentry P.; and Duncan-Flowers, Maggie J.
- Publication Year
- 1936
- 1982
- 1989
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 122 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5545
- Link to this Item
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"Karanis; lamp, conical; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5545/0000_00_5545p03.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.