altar
- Museum number
- 2010,5001.4
- Description
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Fragment of a small limestone portable altar or incense burning table, approximately ¼ of which survives; square block from which a one inch deep depression has been cut with a circular drill or saw; projections on the surviving corner and the surviving side, probably midway; circular socket in the underside, perhaps for fitting unto a stand.
- Production date
- 50BC-300
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.50 centimetres
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Length: 10.40 millimetres (surviving portion)
- Curator's comments
- A partly illegible three digit number, the first a ‘4’, written in blue pencil has been obscured by the V&A registration number. See D. Bailey, 'Lamps in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Opuscula Atheniensia VI (1965), 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980 (?)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5001.4
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 418-1883 (V&A number)
