CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART:

ANCIENT LAMPS (91 through 100)

EC.53.92
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 1st - 2nd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with red varnished clay. Ring handle. Three nozzles. Lamp supported on a pedestal. No decoration or inscription.
Dimensions:
h: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
l: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
w: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)

EC.53.93
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 1st - 2nd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with light clay. Plain. Ring handle, two nozzles, sunken discus.
Dimensions:
h: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
l: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
w: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

EC.53.93 1/2
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 1st - 2nd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with brown clay. Ring handle. Discus decorated with a goat-like creature on the back of a man in molded relief. Inscription on bottom: ...RIS (reportedly once said OPPIRES).
Dimensions:
h: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
l: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
d: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

EC.53.94
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with red clay. No handle. Circular lamp without nozzle, except three vents in discus. No decoration or inscription.
Dimensions:
h: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
d: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

EC.53.95
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with red varnished clay. Large fragment of lamp with three nozzles. Rim and handle broken. In between the nozzles are raised lion heads.
Dimensions:
h: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
l: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
w: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
d: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

EC.53.96
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with light clay. Ring handle on top. Roughly fish-shaped, with overall diamond pattern (scales?) in molded relief. Possibly a Christian symbol. Potter's mark on bottom: X.
Dimensions:
h: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
l: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
w: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

EC.53.97
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with light clay. Fragment of lamp in the shape of a bird. Tail was the handle (now broken). Each wing once projected a small lamp. No surface decoration.
Dimensions:
h: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
l: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
w: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

EC.53.98
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with red varnished clay. Fancy ring handle with acanthus thumb-piece. Five protruding nozzles. Circle in the center of the discus.
Dimensions:
h: 4 5/8 in. (6.4 cm)
l: 6 3/4 in. (16.9 cm)
w: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

EC.53.100
Culture: Roman
Item: Lamp
Date: 2nd - 3rd century CE
Description: Moldmade lamp with coarse red clay in the shape of a grotesque male head.
Dimensions:
h: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)
l: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)
w: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

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