lamp
- Museum number
- EA5208
- Description
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Terracotta lamp. Applied vertical band-handle. Discus decorated with rosette. Shoulder carries Greek inscription. Pointed oval base, with two studs at point. Pinkish-brown clay covered with an orange slip. Handle lost.
- Production date
- 500-650
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.63 centimetres (max)
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Length: 7.97 centimetres
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Width: 5.14 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Same Series: Provoost, A., 1983. ‘De materiële cultuur van de eerste Christenen’. Leuven : Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegerte K. U. Leuven : Uitgeverij Ac, p. 254, 14.16. Near: Bernhard, M.L., 1955. ‘Lampki starożytne’. Warsaw : Wydawnictwo sztuka, 360, from Edfu, inscribed 'of the Holy Polouktos'; ‘Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo’ xxxi, 1975, pl. 27b, nozzle fragment from Elephantine.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - handle lost
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA5208
- Registration number
- 1843,0507.229
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.5208 (Birch Slip Number)