Karanis / lamp / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5930
- Other Number
- Harden 0460
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 10.7 cm;
- Height
- 16.3 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;116 g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Unworked rim bent out from top at sides. Sides taper straight down to near base, where there is slight concavity. Base flattened by pressure. Horizontal frieze of 15 small and 2 large blue blobs, latter diametrically opposed. Above and below frieze, faint traces of groups of wheel incisions. Chipped on rim, small crack in base. No weathering. Material fair. Large patch of bubbles near rim.
- Wilfong: Conical lamp re-used as a dice cup. Glass.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 1st - 4th C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- C0084
- Component/Room
- 00D
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 22 - Michigan Excavations
- Exhibition Curator
- Wilfong, Terry
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Ancient Glass in Toledo Museum of Art News
- Roman Glass from Karanis Found by the University of Michigan Archaeological Expedition in Egypt, 1924-29
- Wondrous Glass
- Publication Author
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Grose
- Harden, D.B.
- Root, Margaret
- Publication Year
- 2015
- 1978
- 1936
- 1982
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.5930
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5930/dscn0834.jpg
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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-0000.00.5930/dscn0834.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
