lamp

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Object Type
Museum number: 1892,1203.4
Description: Mould-made pottery lamp with a voluted nozzle with prominent volute-spines. The discus is decorated with a frieze of gladiatorial armour, including small deep buckler, helmets, knife, pair of greaves and shields. The lamp stands on a base-ring. Buff clay, covered in a streaky dark brown slip.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 20BC-25 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Egypt
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Gela (Sicily) (said to be from)
Materials
Type series: Loeschcke IA; Shoulder-form I
Technique: mould-made; slipped
Dimensions: Length: 8.20 centimetres; Width: 5.90 centimetres
Curator's comments: See British Museum Parliamentary Returns 1892, p.55.
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (Q1885); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (562); Broneer 1930 / Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Terracotta lamps (p,22, note 2); Goldman 1950 / Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus (138); Menzel 1969 / Antike Lampen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum zu Mainz (88); Ferreira de Almeida 1953 / Introducāo ao estudo das lucernas romanas em Portugal (p.40)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: gladiator; arms/armour
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1892
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1892,1203.4

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