Conical Lamp

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Conical Lamp

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 5/8 in. (19.2 cm); Rim Diam: 3 15/16 in. (9.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, wheel cut, and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.868

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Some small ovoid bubbles in body. Transparent natural pale olive (10 Y 6/2). Free-blown. No pontil mark. Wheel-cut. Ground rim sloping slightly downward to the outside. Slender conical body with slightly concave sides. Round base slightly flattened where pontil mark was ground off. Around body, five bands of seven wheel-cut incisions each and one thicker band near rim. CLASSIFICATION: Crowfoot and Harden 1931, pl. 28 type 1.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 121, fig. 477.