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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 mid-depth resevoir; the flaring nozzle is an extension of the reservoir. The reservoir top is only slightly indented in a rounded triangular form, has a central filling hole, and is defined by a wish-bone shaped groove. Below this is stamped a stylized pair of bird wings. Below the wings are three very worn, shallowly stamped 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. Traces of burning on nozzle. On flat bottom is stamped C OPPI RES, referring to C. Oppius Restitutus.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Part of McDaniel Collection at least since 1959: Included in David Mitten's 1959 HSCP article. Probably included in original McDaniel gift.
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 mid-depth resevoir; the flaring nozzle is an extension of the reservoir.
The reservoir top is only slightly indented in a rounded triangular form, has a central filling hole, and is defined by a wish-bone shaped groove.
Below this is stamped a stylized pair of bird wings.
Below the wings are three very worn, shallowly stamped 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.
Traces of burning on nozzle.
On flat bottom is stamped C OPPI RES, referring to C.
Oppius Restitutus.
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