Stamped Roman oil lamp with parallel in the Getty Museum
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Object number
AR3411-05
| Object: |
Oil lamp
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| Material: |
White clay with a pale gray coating.
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| Date: |
Second half 1st - early 2nd century A.D. Roman Empire. |
| Description: |
Oil lamp with ring handle which has two grooves on the upper part. Bow-shaped ear handle on each side of body. Concave discus with central filling-hole. Short narrow channel facing nozzle; small air hole at its top. Shoulders slant down at junction with rounded flat nozzle.
Circular base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's signature LMV.AD[I]EC. Symbiosis of stamps LMVN... and LMA.D.IEC, known from italic workshops with branches in North Africa. For further references, see Bussiere and Lindros Wohl, p. 471. |
| Size: |
Length 101 mm, width 77 mm, height 46 mm.
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| Condition: |
Almost perfectly preserved, merely small chip at the side decoration.
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| Reference: |
An almost identical lamp is published in Bussiere and Lindros Wohl, Ancient lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum (2017) Nr. 271.
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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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