lamp

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Object Type
Museum number: EA38486
Description: Mould-made pottery lamp: Egyptian ring-handle with chevrons on edge. Discus decorated with Eros asleep on bedding within scallop-shell. Heart-shaped nozzle with voluted band; nozzle defined from body on underside by two ridges. Raised base; impressed base-line and plants. Brown clay and slip. Plaster mould. A waster.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2ndC(late)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Fayum
Materials
Type series: Loeschcke VIII; Shoulder-form VIIa
Technique: mould-made; slipped; impressed
Dimensions: Height: 4.30 centimetres; Length: 8.32 centimetres; Width: 6.48 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (2032); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (1182); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.283)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38486
Registration number: 1878,1109.32

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