- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Unglazed pottery lamp of black ware slipped brown. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
- Long description
- Unglazed pottery lamp of black ware slipped brown. Pear or tear-drop shape lamp with flat bottom, rounded sides to straight shoulder and flat rim around a depressed central section and filling hole. There is a very slight ridge around the central section and very faint groove/channel at the front of the ridge. Small wick hole. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Hesse Darmstadt Hochtaunuskreis Bad Homburg Saalburg
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- 1891
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Slipped, Process Coiled Handbuilt
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 47 mm, Height: max 21 mm, Length: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.88.578 Other numbers: H 119
- Research and responses
Saalburg is a Roman Fort belonging to Limes Germanicus [specifically the Upper Germanic Limes]. For more information on the site please see Baatz, D. 1975. Der römische Limes archäologische Ausflüge zwischen Rhein und Donau. Berlin: Mann. [MN 29/07/2009]
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