lamp
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.125
- Description
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Mould-made pottery lamp with a circular body, a wide rounded shoulder, a wide flat rim with internal mouldings, and a short rounded nozzle decorated with a small raised crescent enclosing an impressed circle. At the rear is ring-handle with a crescent-shaped ornament; this has a sunken panel decorated with a rosette of impressed circles. The discus has an air-slit near the edge, and is decorated with a seated draped Cybele wearing a mural crown and holding a patera. She is flanked by two lions, behind one of which stands Attis, wearing a Phrygian cap and holding pan-pipes. Across the centre of the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES (Caius Oppius Restitutus, presumably the maker).
- Production date
- 90-120 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 19.10 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G70/dc14)
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.125
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1971,0101.56 (previously registered as)
