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NM Ant 1916 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade, small, plastic lamp in the form of a ship. Narrow and deep-bottomed, with a keel and bilge-strakes around the edges of the bottom, having indications of studded bolts. The deck is slightly concave, with an edge of a row of studs between ridges. The main area is taken up with a studded, panelled and slightly stylised Sacred Monogram in relief, between two filling-holes. The vertical stem of the ‘rho’ is raised and at the middle of it there is a pierced loop for hanging up the lamp. The wick-hole is placed at the stern; adjacent to which, is a wick-hole channel. Brick-red clay, traces after oil on surface.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

NM Ant 1916

Serie nummer

3643

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Bequest of Mrs. Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Visby, 1934, to the National Museum, Stockholm.

Description

Mouldmade, small, plastic lamp in the form of a ship. Narrow and deep-bottomed, with a keel and bilge-strakes around the edges of the bottom, having indications of studded bolts. The deck is slightly concave, with an edge of a row of studs between ridges. The main area is taken up with a studded, panelled and slightly stylised Sacred Monogram in relief, between two filling-holes. The vertical stem of the ‘rho’ is raised and at the middle of it there is a pierced loop for hanging up the lamp. The wick-hole is placed at the stern; adjacent to which, is a wick-hole channel. Brick-red clay, traces after oil on surface.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

3rd-4th century AD

Period

Late Roman

Name - Acquired from

Benedicks-Bruce, Carolina

Description: Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (28 October 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Swedish sculptor. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Sweden she went to France, at first to study and later to live and work at the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing where she met her husband William Blair Bruce. With him she returned to Sweden and together they created the artists estate Brucebo on Gotland, which was later established as a nature reserve. She also worked actively with the preservation of heritage buildings, women's right to vote and establishing the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization.
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org

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