Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Lamp (L)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 17 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Lamp (L)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 17 of 51

L 370 63-1-74

early Roman lamp, tongue rosette on discus slightly raised base, on which a faint raised letter T, forward of center; from volutes on shoulder a raised line extends down over shoulder on either side (cf O.B. Type XX) XXII reddish buff clay, red to brownish glaze without much luster; cf P 1555 ? intact L 0.108 W 0.078 H 0.025 [photograph] Film VG (13.6.m.a.) 1:5 15.7 [photograph] 16.9 Walther's Type I of early Roman (of soli 496, stamp) St Hermogenes 1940 TR. 43, Tomb 1, #8 at -6.379 Closest to O.B. Type XXII: without handle, flat base (as on all save earliest XXII), tongue pattern and non-encroaching volutes (earlier XXII). • VG pp. 7, 8, 11, 18, 23, 24, 26, 29, 189 Other early 1st AD features: lack of small hole on neck; raised line from volute. Round nozzle, XX or XXIII. drawer

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageAyios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

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Recorded

Also mentionedP 1555

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