- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of buff ware slipped cream and light pink in some areas. Deep saucer with wide, expanded rim, folded to create two wick nozzles. One nozzle is completely closed. The majority of the lamp is open. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/9/2016]
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Punic Archaeological period: Carthaginian
- Date collected
- 1914
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Dimensions
- Height: max 46 mm, Width: max 81 mm, Length: max 90 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.88.447 Other numbers: EC 1 [E C 1]
- 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]
1932.88.447
Pottery lamp of buff ware slipped cream and light pink in some areas. Deep saucer with wide, expanded rim, folded to create two wick nozzles. One nozzle is completely closed. The majority of the lamp is open. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/9/2016]
1932.88.447
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