Karanis / conical lamp / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.5932
- Other Number
- Harden 0457
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- conical lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Materials
- Glass
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- 20.8 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;220g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Yellowish green with blue blobs. Intact. No weathering. Material poor. Many large bubbles. Unworked rim bent out from top of sides. Sides taper straight downward to near the base, where there is a slight concavity. Base flattened by pressure. No pontil technique. One group of horizontal wheel incisions just below rim and below that, sets of three and three, two and two. Between the first and second of these sets a horizontal frieze of blue blobs consisting of two large blobs diametrically opposed, and in between, two triangular groups of ten small ones each.
- Verbatim Date
- 3rd-4th C
- Unit Grid Number
- C0045
- Component/Room
- 00A
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Glass Case 1 Flr 1
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 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
- Record
- 0000.00.5932
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5932/dscn3329.jpg
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"Karanis; conical lamp; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.5932/dscn3329.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.