2007.104.11: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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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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