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NM Ant 1045 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade lamp; circular body with inward-sloping profile. On the top of a very broad sloping shoulder, there is a tubular, slightly tapering orifice. Two pierced and grooved, vertical ring-handle are attached to it. The base-ring is slightly raised with three ring-and-dot pattern in an arrow-head, pointing to the centre of the base, incised in each 120° of the circle. Incised name in the ring: PVLLAENI, above that a makers mark. Moulded leaf-decoration, as rays from the base-ring, on the body. Moulded decoration on shoulder: in four bays of hanging garlands are two dolphins and two birds (cock?) antithetically placed. Brick-red clay and slip.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1045

Serie nummer

3548

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased in 1884 for 5 Skr.

Description

Mouldmade lamp; circular body with inward-sloping profile. On the top of a very broad sloping shoulder, there is a tubular, slightly tapering orifice. Two pierced and grooved, vertical ring-handle are attached to it. The base-ring is slightly raised with three ring-and-dot pattern in an arrow-head, pointing to the centre of the base, incised in each 120° of the circle. Incised name in the ring: PVLLAENI, above that a makers mark. Moulded leaf-decoration, as rays from the base-ring, on the body. Moulded decoration on shoulder: in four bays of hanging garlands are two dolphins and two birds (cock?) antithetically placed. Brick-red clay and slip.

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