1932.56.76: Lamp with Spies carrying Grapes
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.56.76
- Title
- Lamp with Spies carrying Grapes
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 400 - 500 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Tunis
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Late, to Early Byzantine
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/288176
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1932.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Class of 1894
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.56.76
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Lamp on right in image
Exhibition History
- Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/24/1947 - 07/01/1947
- Light from the Age of Augustine: Late Antique Ceramics from North Africa (Tunisia), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, 04/03/2002 - 06/24/2002; Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 06/01/2003 - 12/31/2003; Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven, 03/27/2004 - 04/16/2005
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 01/03/2016
- Early Christian Africa: Arts of Transformation, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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