- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of brown or pink ware with remnants of black slip. [MOBB [OPS move] 20/12/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of brown or pink ware with remnants of black slip. Circular, covered saucer lamp with flat bottom, expanding sides and domed cover. The cover has a central hole and a smaller hole to one side and a very small hole on the other side. The cover has an incised three pointed design. [MOBB [OPS move] 20/12/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Catamarca Province
- Person
- Field collector Henry Davis Hoskold
- Field collector Carlos Alfred Lynes or Lines Hoskold
- PRM source The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club
- Date
- Date collected
- 1882 - 1886
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 03/1938 Donated: 2002
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Perforated, Process Incised, Process Slipped, Process Thrown, Process Coiled
- Dimensions
- Height: max 57 mm, Diameter: max 91 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1947.7.010
Search terms: Lighting, Pottery, Death, Religion, Lamp, Grave Good
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