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 20 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 20 of 51

L 373 | Roman lamp, ovules on rim See L 378 raised band separates discus from rim, another raised band halfway between rim and filling hole; ? stamped circles? (very faint)?at the base of the the short nozzle which interrupts the entire width of the rim; plain flat base; plain vertical handle without type of grooves, apparently not made in the mould. Pod, unrid-wole. Cucla on rin. nozzle blackened from use Westholm's Type 6: see SCE III, pp. 531-2 and Pl. CLXXV, associated by him with Broneer's fine pinkish buff clay, very slightly Types XXIV-XXV and hence dated middle to end of 1st AD. Has in common with XXIV: "discus ... decorated with simple raised rings, and ... rim ... with a stamped ovule pattern" (Broneer p.80). Has in common micaceous, and showing a few rather large white bits where surface has chipped away; no paint or distinguisable slip nozzle broken away; middle of discus broken and repaired, part missing H 0.021 W 0.065 (over) St Hermogenes 49 41 Trench 48/75, against [photograph] | [photograph] Film Vg 38.28 | 1:5 Film Vg 38.27 1:5

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

  • L 373Roman lamp

Also mentionedL 378

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