lamp

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Object Type
Museum number: EA38491
Description: Mould-made pottery lamp with an angled nozzle, decorated on the discus with a grasshopper feeding. The shoulder is decorated with ovules. The lamp stands on a raised base impressed with monogram on the base (the large raised point below it is from an air bubble in the mould, and not a mouldmark). Orange clay, covered with a red slip. Plaster mould.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC-2ndC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Alexandria (Egypt)
Materials
Type series: Loeschcke V (variant); Shoulder form-VIIIb
Technique: mould-made; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 2.48 centimetres; Length: 7.43 centimetres; Width: 5.89 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Same type as lamps 1888, 0601.145; 1961,1025.9.
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (1954); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (604); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.194)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38491
Registration number: 1878,1217.30

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