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NM Ant 1836 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade, plastic lamp. Circular body with convex profile. Convex discus with plastic decoration of a mask. The wavy hair, almost like a lamp-shoulder, surrounds the face. A long moustache falling down on each side of the wide-open, deep mouth and continuos to the wick-hole. The very small filling-hole, with a size of an air-hole is pierced though of the middle of the mouth. At the rear of the lamp is a vertical, unpierced handle with two incised grooves both on the upper and on the lower side of its edge. The handle termination is broad, extends to the base and is flanked by on stamped dot on each side. Long rounded nozzle. Two slightly raised, concentric base-rings; within that a moulded branch between ring-and-dot patterns. One dot as mould-marks is on each side of the body near the base-rings. Red clay and brown slip.

Data elements

Serie nummer

3635

Inventory number

NM Ant 1836

Previous ID

S.N. GR 0033

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Description

Mouldmade, plastic lamp. Circular body with convex profile. Convex discus with plastic decoration of a mask. The wavy hair, almost like a lamp-shoulder, surrounds the face. A long moustache falling down on each side of the wide-open, deep mouth and continuos to the wick-hole. The very small filling-hole, with a size of an air-hole is pierced though of the middle of the mouth. At the rear of the lamp is a vertical, unpierced handle with two incised grooves both on the upper and on the lower side of its edge. The handle termination is broad, extends to the base and is flanked by on stamped dot on each side. Long rounded nozzle. Two slightly raised, concentric base-rings; within that a moulded branch between ring-and-dot patterns. One dot as mould-marks is on each side of the body near the base-rings. Red clay and brown slip.

Period

Roman

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

3rd century AD

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current