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"Bird's Head" Lamp
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Light buff fabric, no slip. Mold-made, boat-shaped lamp with flat bottom and shallow resevoir; the flaring nozzle is an extension of the reservoir. The reservoir top is only slightly indented in a triangular form, has a central filling hole, and is defined by a wish-bone shaped groove which extends onto the nozzle. On either side of this wish-bone extension are incised two verticle lines, probably a stylized form of the bird wings stamped on other examples, such as (like TL 35100.154). Below these lines are three dots. The nozzle flares out into a convexly curved edge with pointed horns on either side. The handle is vertical, pierced parallel to the reservoir edge; the handle is perhaps adapted to being hung on a wall. Stamped on the bottom is ...ABRICA GAII with a sandalled footprint below. Possibly FABRICA GAII = Factory of Gaius.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Walton Brooks McDaniel New Jersey (?-1943/46) gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University (1943/46-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife Alice Corinne McDaniel.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: "Bird's Head" Lamp
Description:
Light buff fabric, no slip.
Mold-made, boat-shaped lamp with flat bottom and shallow resevoir; the flaring nozzle is an extension of the reservoir.
The reservoir top is only slightly indented in a triangular form, has a central filling hole, and is defined by a wish-bone shaped groove which extends onto the nozzle.
On either side of this wish-bone extension are incised two verticle lines, probably a stylized form of the bird wings stamped on other examples, such as (like TL 35100.
154).
Below these lines are three dots.
The nozzle flares out into a convexly curved edge with pointed horns on either side.
The handle is vertical, pierced parallel to the reservoir edge; the handle is perhaps adapted to being hung on a wall.
Stamped on the bottom is .
ABRICA GAII with a sandalled footprint below.
Possibly FABRICA GAII = Factory of Gaius.
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