Naples / candelabrum and 2 lamps (modern replica) / Bronze / Copper
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.02.9864
- Object Name
- candelabrum and 2 lamps (modern replica)
- Lot
- Price, H. J.
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Weight
- 432 g both lamps731 g stand
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Gazda: Lamp holder with hanging lamps. Bronze. This lamp holder, shaped as a leafy tree on which an owl sits, is a common type found in Pompeii. The small lamps, topped by mice, would have hung on chains from the branches.
- Verbatim Date
- 1st C BC - 1st C AD or modern replica
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Naples
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914)
- Case 29 - Roman Dining
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.02.9864
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.9864/dscn4802.jpg
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"Naples; candelabrum and 2 lamps (modern replica); Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.9864/dscn4802.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
