lamp
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.650
- 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 a circular groove; a short grooved channel cuts through this from the discus to the nozzle. On the discus is a scorpion, its chelae embracing the filling-hole. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. Covered with a worn finger-marked orange-red to brown slip.
- Production date
- 90-140 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 6.50 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 650 "650. ____ Scorpion ----- on its backside Id."; ____ and id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 648 "648. A small Roman Sepulchrall lamp whereon the figure of a monkey catching hold of another figure flying away. From Cardinall Gualtieris collection ---- on its backside."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.650
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.650
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 650 (Antiquities)
