45.1908: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 45.1908
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 50 BCE-25 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
- Period
- Roman Republican period, Late, to Early Imperial
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293503
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 12.1 × 6.3 cm (4 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Lent by the Misses Katherine B. and Mary D. Upham, March 14, 1908.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter
- Object Number
- 45.1908
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Tear-shaped, slightly raised, flat base. Deep reservoir. Narrow rim slopes inward and consists of three ridges. Discus is funnel-shaped with a central filling hole surrounded by a large, thinly-petalled rosette. Decorative, bowtie-shaped lug at left side of rim. Long nozzle flares at end and terminates in a straight edge. Channel interrupts rim and extends to nozzle hole.
Handle and tip of nozzle are heavily repaired or restored.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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