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lamp
Object Type
lamp
Museum number
1882,0510.46
Description
Oval lamp, brown-buff clay, white grits; applied vertical loop-handle, pinched; discus - charioteer crowning himself, flanked by palm-branches; random raised points scattered throughout; shoulder: chevron; underside - groups of raised points separated by wavy relief lines, at rear a target; pointed oval base-ring, with spine extending to nozzle, cross within, in relief.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
(provincial)
Production date
5thC-6thC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Abu Mina
(?)
Materials
clay
Technique
impressed
incised
applied
relief
Dimensions
Length:
7.60 centimetres
Width:
5.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum
(Q2200)
Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
(815)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
charioteer/chariot
tree/bush
cross
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Rev Greville John Chester
Acquisition date
1882
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1882,0510.46