lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.614
- Description
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Mould-made pottery lamp with a voluted rounded-tipped nozzle (now broken), a flat shoulder and an inward-sloping moulded rim. The discus is decorated with a draped maenad holding a thyrsus, standing next to a moulded altar with a fire burning on top. The lamp stands on a slightly raised base. Covered with a finger-marked orange-red slip.
- Production date
- 40-80 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.70 centimetres
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Width: 7.10 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 614 "614. ____ wt. an altar & figure wt. an aplustr in the left hand. Id."; ____ and id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 610 "610. A Roman sepulchrall lamp wt a leaf of branea ursina standing up & the figure of the sun, from Cardinall Gualtieris collection."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.614
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.614
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 614 (Antiquities)