Hellenistic oil lamp from old German collection
€400
available
Object number
AR3331-01
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Oil lamp
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| Material: |
Fair clay with widely preserved brownish slip
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| Date: |
About 1st century B.C. Hellenistic period |
| Description: |
Almost circular body with sunk filling hole. Ridges around filling hole and the sinking. Long axe-head shaped nozzle, which is connected with the outer ridge of the filling hole by a channel formed by two ridges. With broad flat handle. Relief decoration on shoulder consisting of leafs or tongues and dots. |
| Size: |
Length 112 mm, width 60 mm, height 40 mm
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| Condition: |
Almost perfectly preserved, undamaged, only minor surface wear, especially around the handle.
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| Reference: |
A. Mlasowsky, Die antiken Tonlampen im Kestner-Museum Hannover (Hannover 1993) Nr. 35
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| Provenance: |
Acquired 2022 at a German auction house. Ex F. Pladeck collection, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, acquired before 1970.
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| Authenticity: |
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