- Museum number
- EA49651
- Description
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Applied handle broken from a mould-made pottery lamp: three-quarter figure of Isis on acanthus or lotus, suckling the child Harpocrates; her hair and drapery are indicated at the back. Upper spring of applied vertical loop-handle at rear. Brown clay covered with a red-brown slip. Plaster mould.
- Production date
- 2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.40 centimetres
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Length: 6.10 centimetres (max)
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Width: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Close and near: Philipp, H., 1972. ‘Terrakotten aus Ägypten’. Berlin : Mann, pl. 25; plaster mould for rear part of handle: Athens NAM, Inv. No. MΠ 1145, from the L. Benaki Collection; Alexandria Museum Inv. No. 29271, from the L. Benaki Collection; also from the L. Benaki Collection, Athens NAM, Inv. Nos. MΠ 2472, MΠ 2478, and MΠ 779, which has an attached bust of Sarapis; Mogensen, M., 1930. ‘La Glyptothèque Ny Carlsberg : la collection égyptienne’. Copenhagen : Levin & Munksgaard, pl. XXXVI, A 210 (much larger); Dunand, F., 1979. ‘Religion populaire en Égypte romaine : les terres cuites isiaques du Musée du Caire’. Leiden : Brill, pl. vi, 6, from Tell Basta; Weber, W., 1914. ‘Die ägyptisch-griechischen Terrakotten’. Berlin : K. Curtius, pl. 2, 19-20; Jucker, H., 1961. ‘Das Bildnis im Blätterkelch : Geschichte und Bedeutung einer römischen Porträtform’ II. Olten : Urs Graf-Verlag, fig. 100, in Zurich; Osborne, A., 1924. ‘Lychnos et lucerna’. Alexandria : Société de publications égyptiennes, 95; 'Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise' X, 1977, p. 265, said to be from Nimes; Cahn-Klaiber, E.M., 1977. ‘Die antiken Tonlampen der Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Tübingen’. Tübingen, 221, from Alexandria; Perdrizet, P., 1921. ‘Les terres cuites grecques d'Égypte de al collection Fouquet’. Nancy : Berger-Levrault, pl. xvi, 50, from Memphis; Breccia, E., 1930. ‘Terrecotte figurate greche e Greco-Egizie del Museo di Alessandria’ I. Bergamo : Officine dell'Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, pl. xxiv, 5-8, pl. xlv, 8, pl. xlviii, 4; Breccia, E., 1928. ‘Le rovine e i monumenti di Canopo’. Bergamo : Officine dell'Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, pl. xxxvi, 7, from Canopus. There are many very similar in Tran Tam Tinh, V., 1973. ‘Isis Lactans : Corpus des monuments gréco-romains d'Isis allaitant Harpocrate’. Leiden : Brill, pls. lx-lxix, and V. Tran Tam Tinh in Vermaseren, M.J., 1978. ‘Hommages à Maarten J. Vermaseren : recueil d'études offert par les auteurs de la série Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire' III. Leiden : Brill, pls ccxxxix-ccxlvi, all in Alexandria Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - handle only
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA49651
- Registration number
- 1875,0517.71
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: alpha (written on back)