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
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis)
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

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.5929
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5929/dscn9817.jpg

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Full citation: "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/dscn9817.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.