Lamp

48-2-294

Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery

From: Asia Minor

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 48-2-294
Current Location Rome Gallery - On Display
Culture Roman
Provenience Asia Minor
Date Made 0-99 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Description

Green patina. Lamp is intact with a small crack at the base of the handle ring. Lamp is set on a disc foot. Oil hole is small with raised ring around it. Handle is a ring with an ivy leaf on the top. There is a trace of incision on the top of the nozzle delineating the hole for the wick.

Height 6.5 cm
Length 11.1 cm
Width 4.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number 263 - Collector Number | L-2-283 - Old Loan Number

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