lamp
- Museum number
- EA22829
- Description
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Pottery lamp. Applied vertical band-handle. Discus decorated with a band of alternate palmettes and leaves. Shoulder has two decorative bands, the upper with palmettes, leaves, rosettes, the lower with a Greek inscription. Nozzle-top decorated with a cross. Undefined base, slightly concave. Pink clay covered with a red slip.
- Production date
- 500-650
- Dimensions
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Length: 11.90 centimetres
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Width: 10.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Same Series: Gayet, A.J., 1902. ‘L'art copte : école d'Alexandrie, architecture monastique, sculpture, peinture, art somptuaire’. Paris : E. Leroux, p. 94. Probably same Series: Bode Museum, Berlin, Inv. No. 9888. Similar shape, different details: Wulff, O., 1909. ‘Altchristliche und mittelalterliche byzantinische und italienische Bildwerke’ I. Berlin : Reimer, Berlin 2272 and 1300, from Keneh, with an inscription relating to the Three Holy Martyrs; Forrer, R., 1893. ‘Die frühchristlichen Alterthümer aus dem Gräberfelde von Achmim-Panopolis’. Strassburg : F. Lohbauer, pl. 1, 11, from Akhmim/Panopolis, inscribed 'in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost'.
- Location
- On display (G70/dc33)
- Condition
- good (exterior worn in places)
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA22829
- Registration number
- 1891,0509.15
