NM Ant 1894
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lamp

- Object description
- Mouldmade lamp; circular body with a slightly convex, inward-sloping profile and rounded nozzle, flat on its upper surface (Loeschcke’s nozzle form L 2). Sloping shoulder (Loeschcke Typus IV.a). Pierced and grooved handle at the rear, halfway down to base, blunt at the end. The deep, concave discus, without decoration, is defined by two circular grooves and has a slightly asymmetrically placed filling-hole, and an air-hole near its rim. Slightly raised base, surrounded with a groove. There is a deepening on the body at the junction with the nozzle. Pale-red clay and finger-marked, dark-brownish slip.



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