Oil lamp
- Description
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This lamp was described by its collector as ‘Roman, probably of the 2nd century A.C. (sic). Large nozzle slightly heart-shaped. Length 5 in. Relief: Nereid riding hippocampus, 1. Fine stye. On bottom, illegible stamp in cartouche. (Stevens’s, 1929)’. It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death. Although the oil lamp is Roman it shows a typically Greek mythical scene of a ‘nereid’ riding a dolphin.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/44
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- oil lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Full Name
- lamp depicting nereid riding hippocampus
- Dimensions
- length 125 mm; W 90 mm; TH 60 mm
- Cultural Group
- Roman
- Period Classification
- Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
- Production Year Low
- 100
- Production Year High
- 199
- Family Group
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- Material
- ceramic
- Collector / Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Collection Continent
- Europe
