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 22 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 22 of 51

L 374 Hellenistic relief lamp, inscribed mended body with sharp angle higher than the middle; slightly raised flat base; rounded or pointed (not triangular) nozzle; no handle or knob; the edge of the filling hole slightly raised, and bevelled to slope inward. in relief on the rim: two cocks opposed, above a mask, which is set above the nk neck; the figures not appliqué but moulded

Margin left: Film.vq 40.26 1:5

Margin left: cf 38.24(tipped)

Margin left: 1:5 Film.vq 27.4 1:5

Margin left: q.also 38.23

inscribed on the base: [illegible] ~before firing (reduced) 'Epe- -riol?

Photograph

Photograph

Date early 2nd BC? See over. fine buff clay, fired partly reddish; remains ~of well red glaze mended from 4 \3 pieces (one of which is partly cracked through and mended); bit of rim, part of bottom and end of nozzle missing, the latter an old x break. \nozzle blackened from burning. (over)

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 374Hellenistic relief lamp, inscribed

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