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SHM 00528:0010 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade lamp; circular body with convex profile; slightly raised base, surrounded with a groove; a mark on it. Voluted nozzle with an angular tip. No handle. Flat, inward-sloping shoulder (Loescke Typus III.a). Concave discus with asymmetrically located opening. Plastic decoration: horseman (gladiator?) riding to the left, holding a round shield and two spears in his left hand, and a spear in his right, raised hand. He is helmeted, and wears a short tunic and boots. Pink-reddish clay and finger-marked, dark-reddish slip.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

SHM 00528:0010

Serie nummer

3644

Previous ID

NM Ant 1085

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Country - Findspot

Morocco : Africa

Place - Findspot

Tangier

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Exhibitions

Object of the month, March 2007.

Context

S. Loeschcke, Lampen aus Vindonissa. Zürich, 1919, p.213.

Acquisition

Gift from Consul Ehrenhoff at Tanger. Reported to have been found in the Consul’s garden at Tanger with 14 other object of antiquities.

Description

Mouldmade lamp; circular body with convex profile; slightly raised base, surrounded with a groove; a mark on it. Voluted nozzle with an angular tip. No handle. Flat, inward-sloping shoulder (Loescke Typus III.a). Concave discus with asymmetrically located opening. Plastic decoration: horseman (gladiator?) riding to the left, holding a round shield and two spears in his left hand, and a spear in his right, raised hand. He is helmeted, and wears a short tunic and boots. Pink-reddish clay and finger-marked, dark-reddish slip.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

0-100 AD

Period

Roman

Name - Acquired from

Statens Historiska museum

Source - http: www.historiska.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.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