lamp; handle; lamp-ornament

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lamp; handle; lamp-ornament

Object Type: lamp; handle; lamp-ornament
Museum number: EA38542
Description: Pierced handle from a mould-made pottery lamp with a triangular ornament depicting Achilles dragging the body of Hector behind his chariot; Hecuba and Priam watch from the walls of Troy. Drab buff, micacaeous, covered with patchy red-brown slip. Plaster mould.
Cultures/periods: Roman Period
Production date: 1stC(late)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Atrib
Materials: pottery
Type series: Broneer Type XXI
Technique: mould-made; slipped; pierced
Dimensions: Length: 18.30 centimetres (max); Width: 11.74 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Same as 1895,1020.1 or very close. 'Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae', i, I, p.144, 632. See 'British Museum Parliamentary Review' 1873, p.13.
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (1934); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (877); Brommer 1974 / Denkmälerlisten zur griechischėn Heldensage (p.97)
Location: Not on display
Condition: incomplete - handle only
Associated names: Representation of: Achilles; Representation of: Hector; Representation of: Priam; Representation of: Hecuba
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Troy (historic), Walls
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev Greville John Chester
Acquisition date: 1873
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38542
Registration number: 1873,0609.46

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