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Accession_Number 79.1.7
Shape Lamp
Shape_description Shallow circular body. Flat nozzle with concave sides, large round wick hole and a rounded tip. Concave discus and wide ring base. Small filling hole, just off centre probably due to decoration.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Roman or Cypriote
Fabric_description Brownish-beige clay with no visible inclusions.
Munsell_color 10YR 7/4
Decoration Discus outlined by three moulded rings. Within the discus just below the filling hole; moulded decoration of a galley on waves. Single volutes on the side of each nozzle. Red-brown wash.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact and complete, brownish to black wash waring in places. White deposit on the base and blackening around the nozzle, probably due to use.
Technique/Style Mouldmade
Provenance Cyprus ?
Period Roman
Date 1 c. AD
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2005.01.0302.jpg		Over head of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2005.01.0303.jpg		View of the base of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2005.01.0323.jpg		Oblique left-side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2005.01.0347.jpg		Left side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2007.99.0164.jpg		Oblique front view from above of a Roman or Cypriote lamp, shoving the nozzle.

2007.99.0165.jpg		Detail of a Roman or Cypriote lamp showing the nozzle and the.

2007.99.0166.jpg		Oblique front view from above of a Roman or Cypriote lamp, showing the nozzle and the tondo.

2007.99.0167.jpg		View of the base of Oblique front view from above of a Roman or Cypriote lamp, showing the nozzle.

2007.99.0168.jpg		Front view of Oblique front view from above of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0760.jpg		View of the base of Oblique front view from above of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0761.jpg		Over head view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0762.jpg		Detail of a Roman or Cypriote lamp, showing the tondo.

2008.99.0763.jpg		Oblique left-side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0764.jpg		Left side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0765.jpg		Front view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0766.jpg		Right side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.

2008.99.0767.jpg		Back side view of a Roman or Cypriote lamp.
Comparanda Loeschcke #460; BM II Q885; BM III Q2397; Oziol (1977) #299-300
Bibliography Loeschcke, Siegfried, Lampen aus Vindonissa, ein Beitr. Zur Geschichte von Vindonissa und des antiken Beleuchtungswesens, Zürich, 1919; Bailey, D.M., A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum II, British Museum Publications Ltd, London, 1980; Bailey, D.M., A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum III, British Museum Publications Ltd, London, 1988; Oziol, Th., ‘Les Lampes du Musée de Chypre’, Series Salamine de Chypre 7, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1977
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 2.5
Diameters 6.1
Handle_height
Other_dims. L. with nozzle 8.7; Base 3.6
Location Warfare
Edited_by Lorraine Cork; Alexandra; Kinsey; Marianne; Marianne; Joana Varela
Date_edited 08.07.03; 24.09.2004; 06.01.2006; 09.02.2007; 18.11.2008; 05.04.2017
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