2007.104.19: Volute Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2007.104.19
- Title
- Volute Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 30 BCE-50 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Carthage (North Africa)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Early
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175533
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 2.9 x 6.3 x 8.9 cm (1 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Said, in unpublished McDaniel Catalogue, to have been found at Carthage in 1923/24 by Horton O'Neil and given to McDaniel Collection in June 1967.
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
- 2007.104.19
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Buff fabric with brick-red slip, mottled on the side and chipped on discus. Fabric is fairly fine, and walls of the lamp are thin. Round reservoir with a high, curving, squared wall. Sunken flat discus with one central filling hole surrounded by two sets of two ridges. Tiny air hole on discus on line with nozzle. Narrow rim decorated with three ridges. The base is broad and flat. Channeled nozzle has single, delicate side volutes and a triangular tip. Some dirt incrustation.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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