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Lamp with Gladiatorial Scenes
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Terracotta oil lamp with a small central filling hole and double volute nozzles. Discus decorated in relief with two gladiators, each wearing a crested helmet and holding a shield and sword. A double ridge surrounds the discus. A horizontal handle supports a large triangular handle ornament with a palmette design in relief.
Classification: D. Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, vol. II (British Museum Publications, 1988), Type D.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman W. Gale gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1935.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman W. Gale
Title: Lamp with Gladiatorial Scenes
Description:
Terracotta oil lamp with a small central filling hole and double volute nozzles.
Discus decorated in relief with two gladiators, each wearing a crested helmet and holding a shield and sword.
A double ridge surrounds the discus.
A horizontal handle supports a large triangular handle ornament with a palmette design in relief.
Classification: D.
Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, vol.
II (British Museum Publications, 1988), Type D.
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