lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1063
- 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 is surrounded by two circular grooves, and is decorated with a myrtle wreath. There is an air-hole pierced through the rim. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. Covered with a finger-marked orange-red slip, fired brown over a large area. Kiln-stacking marks are within the base and on the underbody.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 12.10 centimetres
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Width: 8.60 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 1063 "1063. ____ wt. a corona laurea & the uppser side & underneath Coppi. Res. Id.; ____ referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1057 "1057. A Roman lamp of red terracotta […]"; id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1040 "1040. A Roman lamp of red bak'd 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
- 1756,0101.1063
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1063
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1063 (Antiquities)
