lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.1085
- 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 (broken at the top), grooved along the upper edge and with a sunken ovule at the base of the spine. The discus has an air-hole pierced at the edge, and is surrounded by a circular groove. On the discus is Cupid drawing a thorn from his foot. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. Covered with a worn orange slip.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.70 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 1085 "1085. ____ a Cupid on the upper part. C.oppi. Res. Id."; ____ and id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 1082 "1082. An Etruscan or Roman lamp on the concave top of wch. is a Victory Standing in her left a palm branch in the right a shield on wch. are severall lines of Etruscan Characters on the sides a Janus, Caduceus &c form Cardinall Gualtieris collection by the Abbe Sterbini."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.1085
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.1085
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1085 (Antiquities)
