Conical Lamp
Conical Lamp
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date5th-6th century
DimensionsH: 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm); Rim Diam: 4 9/16 in. (11.7 cm); Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
MediumBlown with applied and wheel-cut decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineReceived in exchange from the Kelsey Museum of Ancient & Medieval Archaeology, University of Michigan
Object number
1983.45
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Small ovoid bubbles in body.
Yellow-green glass with applied frieze of dark blue blobs in a band around the body. Three groups of wheel-cut lines encircle the body.
Transparent natural light olive (near 10 Y 5/4 but slightly yellower). Translucent to opaque blue blobs (not in rock color chart).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added blobs. Wheel-cut.
Cut rim, slanting outward. Conical body, slightly convex in upper part, slightly concave in lower part. Flattened base with slight depression in center.
Three bands of wheel-cut incisions on upper part of body. Between top and middle bands of incisions, a band of blue blobs consisting of two groups of nine small blue blobs separated by large blue blobs.
4th century CE
4th century CE
about 4th century CE
3rd - 5th century CE
Probably sixth century, BCE, possibly later
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
7th-9th century
6th - 5th centuries BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
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