- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of unglazed red ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 22/09/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of unglazed red ware. Circular body with flat base, expanding sides and flat, decorated top. The projecting wick nozzle is rounded and voluted. There is no handle. There is a seam which runs the length of the body on the bottom. The top is decorate with several raised bands which run around the central section which is depressed and features two human figures in relief who appear to be fighting with weapons. There are two holes, one on the out side of each figure. The top of the wick nozzle is also edged in a raised rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 22/09/2016]
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Roman
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 16/09/2016
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 100 mm, Height: max 35 mm, Length: max 135 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2016.75.1 Other numbers: H 12
- Research and responses
Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]
2016.75.1
Pottery lamp of unglazed red ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 22/09/2016]
2016.75.1
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.