Oil lamp with Amphitheater scene, piece from same workshop exhibited in Getty Museum in LA
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Object number
AR2994D
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Oil lamp
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| Material: |
Red clay with partially preserved dark slip
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| Date: |
Second half 2nd - first quarter 3rd century A.D. Roman Empire, Antonine to Severan |
| Description: |
Round oil lamp, heart-shaped nozzle, below it two striated bands between two twisted cords. Ring handle woith two grooves on upper part. Shoulder with a row of ovolos, separated from discus by a braided ridge marked off by two circular grooves. Filling hole and air hole in lower field. The discus shows an amphitheater scene: Big lion at left, with its right claw striking a fallen man whose raised right leg seems to be chained to a pole, which he is grasping. The scene probably depicts the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. A lamp from the same workshop is on exhibition in the J. P. Getty Museum. Manufactured in Tunisia. |
| Dimensions: |
Length 113 mm, width 76 mm, height 49 mm
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| Condition: |
Perfectly preserved, small hole in the left lower part of the body.
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| References: |
Type Loeschke VIII, Bussiere form D X 1c A lamp from the same workshop (identical mirror scene) is published in Bussiere and Lindros Wohl, Ancient lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum (2017) p. 259 nr. 366 Published in Katalog antiker Öllampen der mediterranen Welt der Galerie Alte Römer |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2017 in a British auction house, ex British private collection. Acquired in the collection 2006 at a Christie’s New York auction. Ex US-American private collection, acquired in the 1950s.
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| Authenticity: |
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