lamp

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Object Type
Museum number: EA38481
Description: Mould-made terracotta lamp. Ring-handle, with raised boss at tip of spine and heart-shaped decoration at its top spring. Discus decorated with Eros, draped with himation, holding bowl of fruit, and an animal, probably a goat. Angular shoulder with guilloche between raised edges. Pseudo-base-ring. Dark orange-brown clay and iridescent slip. Plaster mould. Handle broken.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 150-250
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Fayum
Materials
Type series
Technique: mould-made; slipped; engraved
Dimensions: Height: 3.13 centimetres (max); Length: 10.15 centimetres; Width: 7.19 centimetres
Curator's comments: For shape and shoulder decoration, compare the plain lamp Menzel, H., 1969. ‘Antike Lampen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum zu Mainz’. Mainz : Von Zabern, 549, signed EYTYXOY.
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (2050); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (1056); Hayes 1980 / Ancient lamps in the Royal Ontario Museum (433); Bernhard 1955 / Lampki starożytne (310); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.293)
Location: Not on display
Condition: incomplete - handle damaged
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38481
Registration number: 1878,1109.36

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