lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1059
- 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 and with a forked spine. The discus has an air-hole pierced at the edge, and is surrounded by a circular groove. On the discus is a bearded triton wearing a pointed cap, moving over waves; he extends his right arm and holds an indeterminate object in his left hand. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. Covered with a worn finger-marked orange slip. A kiln stacking-mark curves across the base.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 7.20 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 1059 "1059. ____ A figure riding upon a dolphin underneath COD."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.1059
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1059
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1059 (Antiquities)
