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MME 2017:072 :: lamp

Object description: Wheel-made lamp of dark red clay. Globular body with a flattened base on a short, straight stem. Narrow discus, marked by a groove, with a wide pouring hole positioned in the center. Nozzle with a triangular profile, rounded at the bottom and straight at the top, with a single wick hole.

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Inventory number

MME 2017:072

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

oljelampa; lampa

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Geographic name, alternative

Alexandria

Material

Clay; Terracotta; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Belongs to the Strängnäs collection that was formed by the objects that an Italian nobleman named Pietro Pugioli, who lived in Alexandria in the 19th century, sent as a present to the Swedish captain C. Emil Göransson in 1880. The collection was kept at the Strängnäs Museum and Library. In 1945 it was donated by Södermanlands Fornminnesförening to Strängnäs Högre Allmänna Läroverk (Strängnäs Gymnasium). The collection was deposited at Medelhavsmuseet in 1993. In 2017 the deposition was changed into a donation since Strängnäs museum closed.

Description

Wheel-made lamp of dark red clay. Globular body with a flattened base on a short, straight stem. Narrow discus, marked by a groove, with a wide pouring hole positioned in the center. Nozzle with a triangular profile, rounded at the bottom and straight at the top, with a single wick hole.

Period

Hellenistic

Period, Swedish

Hellenistisk tid (323-31 f Kr)

Name - Acquired from

Göransson, C. Emil

Pugioli, Pietro

Description: Pietro Pugioli, born 1831, dead 1902, collector who lived in Alexandra. His collections have been scattered all over the world to museums in New York, Cairo, Bologna and Vienna.

Strängnäs museum

Source - http: www.svt.se

Comments

Most of the Greek-Hellenistic lamps of the Strängnäs collection seem to belong to Howland's types 25, 28-29 and 32-34 (roughly corresponding to Broneer's type VII), therefore giving them a general dating to around 350-225 BC

Keyword

oil; ceramics

Height / Höjd

3,9 cm

Diameter

9,3 cm

Original register

Egypt

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