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Object Type
Museum number: EA38412
Description: Mould-made brownware pottery lamp with two nozzles: grapes between volutes. Triangular handle-ornament with bust of Sarapis above acanthus; unpierced handle. Discus decorated with Europa on Bull. Base-ring. Brown clay, very micaceous. Plaster mould.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC(late)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Alexandria (Egypt)
Materials
Type series: Broneer Type XXI; Loeschcke shoulder-form VIa (near)
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 15.70 centimetres; Width: 9.10 centimetres
Curator's comments: See Walters H B, L'Antiquité Classique, XIV 1945 p.327
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (1920); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (826); Jucker 1961 / Das Bildnis im Blätterkelch : Geschichte und Bedeutung einer römischen Porträtform (p.187, fig.32); Jucker 1972 (p.637, fig.12); Brommer 1976 / Denkmälerlisten zur griechischėn Heldensage (p.124); Ozoil 1977 / Les Lamps du Musée de Chypre (620, 686); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.186, note 279; p.239, note 473)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Subjects: ancient egyptian deity; classical deity; cattle
Associated names: Representation of: Serapis; Representation of: Europa
Associated events: Associated Event: Europa and the Bull
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38412
Registration number: 1871,0619.410

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