- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Base of a brass hanging lamp. For lamp holder see [1944.5.18 .2 B]. Object paired with [1944.5.17 .1 B] [RM [OPS move] 13/7/2016]
- Long description
- Brass hanging lamp. In two pieces, a base [.1] with candle or lamp holder and a lid [.2] with handle and opening to enable lantern to be lit or extinguished. These would have been connected with a linen, silk or parchment lantern section which is not present. [MdeA 27/6/2005]
- Person
- Field collector Marc Aurel Stein
- PRM source The Estate of Marc Aurel Stein
- PRM source Helen Mary Allen
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1901-1906
- Date collected
- 1901-1906
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Brass Metal, Process Filigree
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 185 mm total, Height: max 160 mm total, Height: max 50 mm, Diameter: max 180 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.5.18.1B
- Research and responses
One letter in the PRM manuscripts collection (Penniman Papers) from Stein which might explain his connection to the PRM. It is written to the curator of the time, Mr Penniman, dated June 6 1937: "22 Manor Place, Oxford. Dear Mr Penniman, I remember with pleasure our meeting at Kish in January 1929 and am glad to know you are now looking after anthropology here. It would have been a satisfaction to me to be of some little help to your future pupil as regard to his proposed visit to Lazistan. But I have never been anywhere near that tract(?) on the Black Sea and not knowing in what direction his interests lie I do not think that I could give any useful hints within the very limited time just now at my disposal, anyhow by writing. I have returned from a long journey in Iran and am about to seek some needful rest in the Cotswolds. But later on I hope for a chance of seeing you again. Yours sincerely, A. Stein. " [AS 10/12/2009]
1944.5.18.1B
Base of a brass hanging lamp. For lamp holder see [1944.5.18 .2 B]. Object paired with [1944.5.17 .1 B] [RM [OPS move] 13/7/2016]
1944.5.18.1B
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