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Oil lamp
Oil lamp
Date5th century CE
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 3.8 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm (1 1/2 x 4 x 3 in.)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object numberINV.655
On view
DescriptionBroneer type XXXI (demonstrating a broad rim with intricate decoration, thin handle, unpierced and ungrooved). Handle broken. Disk missing. Nozzle burned. Boat-shaped with small disk, broad channel from discus to wick-hole; lug shaped handle. Pattern of raised parallel oblique lines on either side of rim; raised ray pattern on base. Clay coarse red.
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Alternate Titles Oil lamp
Exhibition History 2011
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.).
Provenance by c. 1960s: Hamilton College;
provenance unknown.
Photograph by John Bentham.
Date: 6th-8th century
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: 2015.6.49
Oil lamp
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
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Medium: Terracotta
Object number: INV.654
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Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
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Medium: Terracotta
Object number: 2015.6.20
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Medium: Terracotta
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Oil lamp with vine and leaf motif
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 5th-7th century
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: 2015.6.46
Oil lamp
Unknown artist
Date: possibly 4th-3rd century BCE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of glaze
Object number: INV.657
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Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
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Medium: Blown glass
Object number: 1929.106
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Date: date unknown
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Object number: INV.610
Oil lamp
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 2nd century B.C.E.
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: 1943.10
Cruse
Unknown artist
Date: date unknown
Medium: Alabaster
Object number: INV.667
Date: c. 1875
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Jug
Date: c. 6th-7th century CE
Medium: Mold-blown glass
Object number: 1929.76