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

DescriptionThis conical lamp is made from medium thin transparent natural pale olive glass (10 Y 6/2). The vessel is free-blown with no pontil mark, and the surface is wheel-cut and polished. Some small ovoid bubbles are visible in the body. The rim is ground and slopes slightly downward to the outside. The slender conical body has slightly concave sides and a round base that is slightly flattened where the pontil mark was ground off. Around the body are five bands of seven wheel-cut incisions each and one thicker band near the rim. This vessel is classified as a lamp (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.