Pottery lamp or brown ware. Saucer lamp (missing its bottom) with three nozzles made by folding the entirety of the rim up in three sections to meet in the middle. A small triangular opening in the centre has resulted from this process. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery lamp or brown ware. Saucer lamp (missing its bottom) with three nozzles made by folding the entirety of the rim up in three sections to meet in the middle. A small triangular opening in the centre has resulted from this process. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/9/2016]
Geographical reference: Tunisia
Africa > Northern Africa > Tunisia; Tunis Carthage
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Punic Archaeological period: Carthaginian
Date collected: 1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Clay, Process Pinched
Dimensions: Height: max 35 mm, Width: max 72 mm, Length: max 85 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.88.444 Other numbers: EC 6 [E C 6]
Research and responses: The White Fathers [Pères Blancs ] was a colloquial name for the Société de Notre-Dame d'Afrique or La Société de Missionnaires d'Afrique, a missionary society founded by Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie, a French cardinal and archbishop of Carthage in the late 19th century. [MN 18/08/2009]

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