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Lamp with Chi-Rho Monogram
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Mold-made, terracotta lamp: oval body with long nozzle, now broken, with wide shallow channel between the wick hole and the filling hole; traces of burning on the mouth. The handle is grooved and unpierced. shoulders decorated with a groove pattern forming a circle around the area of the filling-hole; the filling-hole area is decorated with the Chi-Rho symbol, flanked by two filling holes. The lamp stands on a flat base within which is impressed a loop-like groove that extends towards the rear of the lamp and a circle within the loop, possibly a makers' mark.
Classification: Hayes, Type I.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Dr. Harris Kennedy Milton MA (by 1932) gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1932.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy Class of 1894
Title: Lamp with Chi-Rho Monogram
Description:
Mold-made, terracotta lamp: oval body with long nozzle, now broken, with wide shallow channel between the wick hole and the filling hole; traces of burning on the mouth.
The handle is grooved and unpierced.
shoulders decorated with a groove pattern forming a circle around the area of the filling-hole; the filling-hole area is decorated with the Chi-Rho symbol, flanked by two filling holes.
The lamp stands on a flat base within which is impressed a loop-like groove that extends towards the rear of the lamp and a circle within the loop, possibly a makers' mark.
Classification: Hayes, Type I.
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