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Terracotta Lamp
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From Rome, Broneer Type cannot be determined. Material: hard, porous, light-yellow clay, with gritty black impurities. No surface treatment. Complete except for tiny hole in right side, slightly encrusted. Crudely made oblong lamp with long nozzle containing tiny wick-hole and horizontal pierced handle. Flat, somewhat elliptical base, concave top with small, central filling-hole. Wick-hole apparently stopped up. Decoration--V-shaped groove, pointing towards nozzle, on top. No inscriptions or potter's stamps.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Loan from Dr. George H. Chase
Title: Terracotta Lamp
Description:
From Rome, Broneer Type cannot be determined.
Material: hard, porous, light-yellow clay, with gritty black impurities.
No surface treatment.
Complete except for tiny hole in right side, slightly encrusted.
Crudely made oblong lamp with long nozzle containing tiny wick-hole and horizontal pierced handle.
Flat, somewhat elliptical base, concave top with small, central filling-hole.
Wick-hole apparently stopped up.
Decoration--V-shaped groove, pointing towards nozzle, on top.
No inscriptions or potter's stamps.
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