Oil lamp depicting seven-branched candlestick
The images on this Roman oil lamp are Judeo-Christian religious symbols, including a seven-branch candelabrum and vine leaves. It was made in Alexandria in Egypt which had important Jewish and Christian communities at this time. 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.
- 5/1946/123
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Agar Denys (from the collection of)
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- oil lamp depicting seven-branched candlestick
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
- Production Town
- Alexandria
- Production Country
- Egypt
- Production Year Low
- 200
- Production Year High
- 399