2007.104.21: Lamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.104.21

Title

Lamp

Classification

Lighting Devices

Work Type

lighting device

Date

2nd half of the 1st century BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Unidentified Site

Period

Roman Republican period, Late, to Early Imperial

Culture

Roman

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175462

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Mold-made

Dimensions

3.1 x 8.8 x 10.4 cm (1 1/4 x 3 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Part of McDaniel Collection at least since 1959: Included in David Mitten's 1959 HSCP article. Probably included in original McDaniel gift.

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

2007.104.21

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Buff fabric with orange-red slip. Some chipping around outermost rim of reservoir. Reservoir with curving sides. Two raised ridges define a flat discus with central filling hole. Small air hole at edge of flat discus, abutting reservoir rim, and in line with nozzle. Wide, flaring nozzle with three small incised circles below reservoir rim; wide wick hole. Nozzle is blackened from charring. Wide, shallow ring base. Base has 5 small incised circles, in 2-1-2 pattern.

Subjects and Contexts

• Roman Domestic Art

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