lamp

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Object Type
Museum number: EA48545
Description: Mould-made pottery lamp. The discus is decorated with a bird on a pomegranate bough. Within the base-ring is impressed monogram I. Buff clay, covered with a dark brown slip. Plaster mould.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC(late)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Alexandria (Egypt)
Materials
Type series: Loeschcke IV; Shoulder-form V (near)
Technique: mould-made; slipped; impressed
Dimensions: Length: 7.90 centimetres; Width: 6 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Lamp / Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum (1913); Walters 1914 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum (707); Cahn-Klaiber 1977 / Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen (p.149, note 105)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA48545
Registration number: 1878,1217.26

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