Oil lamp depicting a woman
This lamp was described by its collector as ‘Six-wick lamp of ovoid shape: pink clay with red glaze, 4.1 in. wide by 2.3 in. top to bottom. The upper part of the body of young woman, whose head is in almost full relief, leans forward, slightly to the right, stretching her left arm above an oval filling-hole, and with her right shoulder covered by a scarf or veil, double band of embroidery(?) on breast. An ornamental pattern runs around the top and narrower end of the lamp, and a row of six small nozzles projects below the relief, which is in its correct position with the longer axis of the lamp is horizontal. Fine style and of very unusual form. Probably Romano-Egyptian, from late 1st century’.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/111
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- oil lamp depicting a woman
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
