lamp
- Museum number
- 98929
- Description
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Brass lamp; cast; rounded body with nozzle ending in a dished circular wick-hole area enclosing a circular wick-hole; raised rim around the filling-hole with hinge-pieces at the rear; missing lid; double, triangular-sectioned, rod-handle, curving up and terminating in a male mask; behind the mask is a hooked lug of no apparent function; raised circular base, with a square hole for a pricket stand; rounded conical sleeve inside the oil-chamber; minor damage to nozzle; patchy light and dark green surface colouration.
- Production date
- 5thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.65 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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DSR analysis indicates brass composition. Analysis: copper: 72.9; lead: 8.86; tin: 1.78; zinc: 17.8.
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Close: an example noted in Aleppo Museum, Syria, with a male mask and a pierced lug behind it; a lamp in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, with a female mask: behind the mask is a hook similar to that on ours, again of no obvious use. Near: also with a mask, behind which is a hook, on a double-rod handle: 'Boreas' 7, 1984, p. 392, 1. Near: with gryphon's head on a double-rod handle: Dunand, M., 1937. ‘Fouilles de Byblos’. Paris : P. Geuthner, pl. LIV, 1167.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Missing lid; minor damage to nozzle; patchy light and dark green surface coloration.
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 98929
- Registration number
- 1905,0409.435