- Identification and Creation
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Roman Domestic Art
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