lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1039
- Description
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Mould-made pottery lamp with a circular body, a rounded shoulder, and a short flat-topped semicircular nozzle set into the shoulder and defined by a lateral groove. At the rear is a pierced handle, grooved along the upper edge. The discus has an air-hole pierced at the edge, and is surrounded by a circular groove. On the discus are three sheep grazing. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. A large part of the underside is missing. Covered with an orange-red slip.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.30 centimetres
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Width: 7.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Antiquities 1039 "1039. ____ sheep feeding a tree before them on the under side Opps. Res. Id."; _____ referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1032 "1032. _ A large lamp of red earth […]"; Id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1023 "1023. A bak'd earth Roman lamp wt a mask on its upper side. From Cardinal Gualtieris collection by Abbe Sterbini."
- Location
- On display (G1/wp158/sh6)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.1039
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1039
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1039 (Antiquities)
