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MM 1968:041 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade lamp; oval, body more pointed at the nozzle end. A rim surrounds the decorated discus and extends to enclose the wick-hole area, producing a channel between the large wick-hole and the two filling-hole. At the rear there is an unpierced, triangular handle with a groove on its edge. There are two filling-holes, one at the beginning of the channel with the edge of the discus, the other in the centre of the discus with a moulded rosette around it. On the rounded shoulders there are a moulded pattern of stylised palm branches. The slightly raised base is concave within. The base-ridge continues in two lines towards the handle, forming tree grooves which are extending also towards the handle. Brick-reddish clay and the same, slightly darker slip. Traces after use on wick-hole.

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Inventory number

MM 1968:041

Serie nummer

3461

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Italien

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Gift from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1968

Description

Mouldmade lamp; oval, body more pointed at the nozzle end. A rim surrounds the decorated discus and extends to enclose the wick-hole area, producing a channel between the large wick-hole and the two filling-hole. At the rear there is an unpierced, triangular handle with a groove on its edge. There are two filling-holes, one at the beginning of the channel with the edge of the discus, the other in the centre of the discus with a moulded rosette around it. On the rounded shoulders there are a moulded pattern of stylised palm branches. The slightly raised base is concave within. The base-ridge continues in two lines towards the handle, forming tree grooves which are extending also towards the handle. Brick-reddish clay and the same, slightly darker slip. Traces after use on wick-hole.

Period

Late Roman

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

4th-5th century AD

Inventory number - Related to

MM 1989:018, lamp

Description: Mouldmade lamp; oval body more pointed at the nozzle end. A rim surrounds the decorated discus and extends to enclose the wick-hole area, producing a channel between the large wick-hole and the filling-hole. At the rear there is an unpierced, triangular handle. Around a sunken filling-hole in the centre of the discus, there is two roes of notches like a rosette, which are surrounded with two concentric grooves. On the rounded shoulders there are sunken lines of stylised palm branches. The slightly raised base is concave within and has a large branch pattern in relief. The base-ridge continues in two lines towards the handle, forming tree grooves which are extending also towards the handle. Brick-reddish clay and slip. Traces after use on wick-hole.

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