Oil lamp
This oil lamp was excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1904 from the Romano-Egyptian site at Heracleopolis Magna, or Ihnasya al-Medinah. It is one of 45 objects donated to this museum from the excavation. At that time it was typical for ‘common’ types of object to be given to regional museums in Britain amid the public interest in ancient Egypt. This lamp is decorated with images of fruit and flowers.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 921/1904
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Egypt Exploration Fund Committee
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- oil lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
