Pottery lamp stand of red ware with traces of red slip. Saucer on short foot with shallow depression in the centre. [MOBB [OPS move] 4/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery lamp stand of red ware with traces of red slip. Saucer on short foot with shallow depression in the centre. [MOBB [OPS move] 4/10/2016]
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, Process Slipped, Process Thrown, Process Coiled Handbuilt
Dimensions: Diameter: max 109 mm, Height: max 19 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.88.449.1 Other numbers: EC 9x [E C 9 x]
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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