hook(triple)
- Museum number
- 1986,0405.2
- Description
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Triple hook; brass; with suspension loop; round-section wire and three projections, each curving upwards into a spherical finial, and each with a lug underneath.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 57 millimetres (without suspension wire)
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Depth: 62.70 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See D.M. Bailey, Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum Vol IV (London, 1996), no. Q3939MLA, p. 109, pl. 150.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- One finial missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1986
- Acquisition notes
- Bailey remarks that it "may have come to the Museum in 1772 with the collection of Sir William Hamilton and are perhaps (one of) the hooks mentioned in a bound volume of Hamilton Papers, p. 287, in the Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities"
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1986,0405.2
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1976,1231.223 (G&R reg.no)