lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1076
- Description
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Mould-made pottery lamp with a circular body and a short rounded nozzle. At the rear is a ring handle. The rounded shoulder is decorated in relief with a myrtle or olive-wreath, the lower ends of which terminate in volutes near the nozzle. The shoulder is separated from the discus by a single moulding. The discus is decorated with the Three Fates, all wearing long tunics: in the centre is Clotho holding up a distaff and twirling a spindle; on her right, Lachesis reads from a scroll; on her left, Atropos holds a pair of scales. Within the base-ring are two small circular depressions.
- Production date
- 175-225 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.80 centimetres
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Width: 7.90 centimetres
- 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 1076 "1076. ____ Three figures round wch. a corona-quercea. 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
- 1756,0101.1076
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1076
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1076 (Antiquities)