lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1046
- 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 two circular grooves. On the discus is a bust of a comic actor wearing a slave mask. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES with a ring-and-dot pattern above and below. Covered with a worn brown slip. Across the base is a kiln stacking-mark.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.60 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 1046 "1046. ____ bust of a mask on the upper side on the upper Loppi.kes- as 1039. Id."; ____ and id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1040 "1040. A Roman lamp of red bak'e earth on the Upper side 2 boys at play? from Card inall Gualtieris Collection at Rome the Abbe Sterbini."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.1046
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1046
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1046 (Antiquities)
