- Museum number
- EA66576
- Description
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Bronze lamp: elongated body and long, fluked nozzle with a rounded tip. Circular wick-hole. Flat, sunken top, with a raised edge and a flat rim around the body and the nozzle. Filling-hole of ivy-leaf shape, with an engraved stem. At the rear is a handle with a stem, now distorted, of angular D-shaped section, curving forward to a serrated collar, from which emerges a horse's head and neck. Raised base-ring, with 'lathe-turned' mouldings at its centre. Surface colouration: cleaned to bare metal.
- Production date
- 50-150
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres
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Length: 17.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Analysis: copper: 72.0; lead: 17.8; tin: 9.22; zinc: 0.13.
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Close and near: Valenza Mele, N., 1981. ‘Catalogo delle lucerne in bronzo : Museo nazionale archeologico di Napoli’. Rome : Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello stato, 241-2, both from Pompeii; 'Palestine Exploration Fund Annual' 5, 1929, p. 97, fig. 20, from the Tyropoeon Valley, Jerusalem, in the 'Lower Byzantine Level'; Sotheby New York 'Sale Catalogue' 29 November 1989, Lot 97; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Inv. No. 1683; Neugebauer, K.A., 1938. ‘Antiken in deutschem Privatbesitz : Festschrift zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Bestehen der Vereinigung’. Berlin : Gebr. Mann, No. 74, 'from Trapezos in Pontus'; Esperandieu, E., and Rolland, H., 1959. ‘Bronzes antiques de la Seine-Maritime’. Paris : Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, No. 187, from Port Jerome; Sotheby 'Sale Catalogue' 19 May 1986, Lot 183; ibid., 12 December 1988, Lot 115; Loeschcke, S., 1911. ‘Beschreibung römischer Altertümer, gesammelt von Carl Anton Niessen’. Cologne, 3778. For similar horse-head-handled lamps in fired clay, see K. Goethert in 'Trierer Zeitschrift' 54, 1991, pp. 217-29: most are dated to the first half of the second century AD; also Loeschcke, S., 1911. ‘Beschreibung römischer Altertümer, gesammelt von Carl Anton Niessen’. Cologne, 2107, from Cologne, and 3778; N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 322-3; Egyptian Archaeology 1991, Vol.I p.18; Illustrated London News 20 October 1962 p.607, fig.17; Illustrated London News 7 July 1962, p.34.
- Location
- On display (G65/dc16)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 24 May-30 Sep, London, BM 'The horse:from Arabia to Royal Ascot'
2010 01 Jun-31 Dec, USA, Kentucky Horse Park, International Museum of the Horse, 'A Gift from the Desert'
- Condition
- good (repaired). Surface coloration: cleaned to bare metal.
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA66576
- Registration number
- 1962,1208.38
