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Handle missing; nozzle broken off at the end.
Mould-made. Naturalistic designs on top: cornucopiae? Raised ridges around filling hole. Vertical strap-handle. Incised before firing on base: ΓΑ. Cf. Identical ... 1932 ... Identical lamps Broneer pp. 19 fig. 9.
... The rudimentary volute mentioned by Broneer (pp. 20) are even more rudimentary on this lamp, in fact, hardly recognizable as such. |
Nothing of sides or bottom. Disk: long-beaked bird and a rearing animal (wolf?) facing each other across filling hole; rim: leaved tendril.
According to R. S. Young the scene on the disk is from one of ... 5th c. A.D ... Cf. O. Broneer, Corinth, IV, ii, Terracotta Lamps, Cambridge, Mass., 1930, p. 268, no. 1300. |
Nozzle and fragment of body only.
Triangular nozzle, depressions at 2 corners. Concave discus with small filling-hole. Shields in relief as decoration on shoulder. General shapes much like L 260.
Clay: ... 1931 ... For the design of Broneer fig 3 (pp. 14), which has the same shields and form of nozzle. ... This type of design he says (p. 63) is borrowed from the Knidos lamps, where is was appliquéd. |
Fragment of upper part of discus.
On discus, figure of Eros, advancing to the right but looking back at an object held in the right hand, in his left hand is a lyre; a leaf-like object in the background ... 28 July 1931 |
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