Karanis / lamp / Glass
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5929
- Other Number
- Harden 0441
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 7.9 cm;
- Height
- 13.5 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;71g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Greenish glass with blue blobs. Unworked rim, bent outward from top of side. Sides taper down with slight convexity. Solid pointed base. No pontil. Ca. 2 cm from rim, two groups of wheel incisions, and 3 cm below them, one group. Between groups, horizontal frieze of two diametrically opposed large blue blobs with row of five smaller ones on each side in between. Rim chipped and repaired. Stains inside. No weathering. Bubbly with many sandy impurities. Blowing spirals.
- Unit Grid Number
- C0063
- Area
- R:B:S
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 11 - Karanis House
- Cosmogonic Tattoos
- Exhibition Curator
- Wilfong, Terry
- Cogswell, James
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 2017
- Publication Title
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Wondrous Glass
- Publication Author
- Harden, D.B.
- Root, Margaret
- Publication Year
- 1936
- 1982
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 158 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.5929
- Link to this Item
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"Karanis; lamp; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5929/0000_00_5929p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.