| Object Number |
MS5929 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Roman |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Period |
Roman Period |
| Date Made |
1st century |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Iconography |
Signature | Horseshoe |
| Description |
Intact save for some flaking. Plain, concave discus with small filling hole encircled by two lines of wheel grooving. Pinch handle horizontally pierced. Nozzle short, shovel shaped in plan. A signature and a horseshoe stamp on bottom which is encircled by a wheel-run line. Dull buff clay with traces of red glaze. |
| Length |
10 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
7.5 cm |
| Credit Line |
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Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Broneer, Oscar. Terracotta Lamps. 4, 2. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. Page/Fig./Plate: 339 See: Type XXV |
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| Perlzweig Binder, Judith. The Athenian Agora: Lamps of the Roman Period: First to Seventh Century after Christ. 7. 1961. See: No. 126 |
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