Oil lamp depicting Eros riding a pig
- Description
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This lamp was described by its collector as ‘Rounded nozzle with volutes: solid circular handle. Pink clay with bright red glaze; 4.5in. by 2.8in. Relief: Boy (possibly wingless Eros) seated slightly to left, apparently on a pig, the head and forelegs of which appear behind his left leg. In his right hand he holds a straight rod pointing to the base of a tree before him, and a chlamys falls over his left arm. On bottom, incuse mark in form of a foot-print. Fine style. First century A.C. (sic)’. It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/112
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- oil lamp depicting Eros riding a pig
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Full Name
- oil lamp depicting Eros riding pig
- Dimensions
- length 115 mm; W 75 mm; TH 40 mm
- Cultural Group
- Roman
- Period Classification
- Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
- Family Group
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- Material
- ceramic
- Collector / Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Collection Continent
- Europe
