Roman oil lamp with Victoria - parallel in the Getty Museum
€440
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Object number
AR3411-07
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Oil lamp
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| Material: |
Brown clay with a brown coating.
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| Date: |
Second half 1st - beginning 2nd century A.D. Roman Empire, Flavian to Trajanic. |
| Description: |
Oil lamp with a round nozzle and volutes on the neck. On discus winged Victory to right, draped from waist down, writing on a shield. The discus is framed by grooved circles. Flat base.
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| Size: |
Length 112 mm, width 68 mm, height 48 mm.
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| Condition: |
Perfectly preserved incl. the original slip on the bottom.
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| References: |
A lamp with a mirror motif from the same mold, most likely from the same workshop, is published in Bussiere and Lindros Wohl, Ancient lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum (2017) Nr. 261.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2023 from the German family collection of E. K. Inherited in 2022
from the parents, August and Erna Rinner, who in turn inherited the lamp collection from the grandparents, Wilhelm and Erna Eichheim. Wilhelm Eichheim received the objects between 1925 and 1935 as compensation for his work as a master metalsmith. The objects were listed by Erna Rinner in an antiques list she compiled around 1970, which was apparently based, among other things, on notes by Wilhelm Eichheim. Tunisia is listed there as the country of origin. Mr. Eichheim must have learned this information when he received the lamps in Germany, as he himself had never traveled to Tunisia. |
| Authenticity: |
We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity.
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