lamp; lamp-ornament

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Object Type: lamp; lamp-ornament
Museum number: EA38543
Description: Triangular handle-ornament from a buff pottery lamp depicting a sheep and a reclining shepherd playing the pan-pipes beneath a tree, acanthus below; buff clay, traces of red slip.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC(late)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Fayum
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 11.89 centimetres (max); Width: 10.02 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Scene as on 1903,1016.1, but not from same Series.
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (1939); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (875); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.205)
Location: Not on display
Condition: incomplete - handle-ornament only
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1879
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38543
Registration number: 1879,1120.34

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