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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.104.11
Title
Lamp
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
100 BCE-1 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Unidentified Site
Period
Roman Republican period, Late, to Early Imperial
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175167

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta with red slip
Technique
Mold-made
Dimensions
5.3 x 7.5 x 10.8 cm (2 1/16 x 2 15/16 x 4 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Part of the original 1943 McDaniel gift to the Classics Department. A lamp referred to as "Roman Red-glaze Barbotine Lamp." is listed on a non-comprehensive list of McDaniel objects dated April 30, 1947.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.104.11
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Mold-made. Pinkish-buff clay with shiny brick-red slip (soapy feel). Thick small ring base. Underbody and rim covered with small, raised dots in concentric rows. Reservoir donut-shaped, deep compared to width. High, rounded ridge at top of rim. Depressed central discus with central perforation set off by a wide raised band. Two smoothed lugs on opposite sides of body, both chipped. Vertical loop handle decorated with two vertical grooves. Long nozzle, as deep as the reservoir, with flat top, flaring ends, and oblong wick hole. Small air hole on nozzle just outside the rim. Prominent traces of burning around wick hole: slip has turned a dark brownish-black in that area.


Subjects and Contexts

  • Roman Domestic Art

Verification Level

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