Circular pottery lamp slipped red or pink. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Circular pottery lamp slipped red or pink. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
Long description: Circular pottery lamp slipped red or pink. Circular saucer lamp with flat bottom, depressed centre and wide expanded rim - which is not level. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Tunisia
Africa > Northern Africa > Tunisia; Tunis Carthage
Person: Field collector John Oliver Wardrop; PRM source John Oliver Wardrop
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Carthaginian
Date collected: By 1904
Acquisition information: Donated: 1904
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Thrown, Process Slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: max 90 mm, Height: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1904.17.4 Other numbers: EC 15 x [E C 15 x]
Research and responses: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Carthage is now part of a residential suburb of the city of Tunis. [CW 19/1/2000]
Despite the different variations on the name in the accession book entries, J.O. Wardrop, and Oliver Wardrop etc are all the same person, according to the donor index [AP 23/8/2001]

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