lamp
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.117
- Description
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Mould-made pottery Firmalampe: a lamp with a circular bowl-shaped body, a rounded shoulder, a small flat discus with a raised rim, and a long nozzle with a channel along the top and a rounded tip. The wick-hole area is surrounded by a raised edge. On the shoulder are two unpierced lugs. An air-hole is pierced in the nozzle channel. The discus is decorated with a slave mask, flanked by two filling-holes. The lamp stands on a base-ring with an internal moulding; within is the name VIBIVS is relief, with an impressed circle above and below.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.80 centimetres
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Width: 7.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G69/Balcony/dc9)
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.117
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1971,0101.48 (registered in error as)