Oil lamp depicting vine with grapes
This lamp was described by its collector as ‘Roman, of early 1st century after Christ. Pale pink. Angular nozzle between volutes, pierced handle and lateral ornaments of “ears”. Length 3.5 in. Relief. Vine branch with two bunches of grapes. (From Cyria [sic]. Bought at Stevens’s 1927)’. 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.
- 5/1946/39
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- oil lamp depicting vine with grapes
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
