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| Preserved is about three-fourths of top of lamp and handle.
Handle not pierced but grooved. Disk has bull's head with two framing rings; forelock on bull's head arranged in rectangle with transverse grooves ... 23 May 1970 |
| Intact except for tip of nozzle.
Disc with channel to wick hole. Cross with flaring bars ornamented with dots.
On rim, rings within rings. Pointed knob handle. Ridge from base ring to handle.
Dark buff ... 21 August 1970 |
Complete.
On base, slightly raised ring, plain within. Handle, grooved and pierced, ends in heart-shaped relief ivy leaf.
On disc, rays within two rings. On rim, vine pattern of six grape clusters, four ... 6 August 1971 |
Full profile and most of top half preserved.
On disc, 15-petalled rosette; on rim, herringbone pattern. Double grooves on either side of nozzle. Central groove from air hole to wick hole. Grooved unpierced ... 21 June 1972 |
Very worn, large chip missing from top as well as about half of the base.
On disc, dog seated left; two framing rings. On rim, S-pattern panels with indistinct decoration. Handle, punched and grooved ... 11 July 1972 |
Broken all around. Mold made. From the upper front part of a figure wearing an elaborate breastplate; over the left shoulder falls the mask of a lion's skin; eyes punched. At the lower edge of the fragment ... 20 May 1936 |
The fragment seems to represent the upper part of a draped female figure preserved, in part from neck to waist. A square breast-plate ornamented with dots and gouges is worn over drapery. A long lock of ... 14 May 1935 |
A flat triangular piece with a knob at the end. On the upper surface, part of a triangular(?) relief ornament.
Pinkish-buff clay; no paint or glaze. Mixed fill. Leica ... 22 May 1935 |
| Nozzle missing, otherwise intact.
Disk: bull's head in two framing rings interrupted by handle. Rim: two panels with incised branches. Nozzle: set off from rim by two parallel grooves with punched holes ... 25 June 2003 |
| Complete but for gaps in body. Mended from three fragments.
Disk: bust of a richly dressed personage, facing right, flanked by two vent holes. Figure wears a squarish cap and a triangular necklace/collar ... 26 June 2003 |
Back and most of front missing.
Circular hollow handle shield (?), decorated with incised cross (?) and small circles.
Orange clay, gray at the surface.
Publication: 5th c. A.D. Burned Building; west ... Publication: 5th c. A.D. |
About half preserved.
A disk made in two layers and stuck together.
Obverse: a cross, probably stamped, with stamped circles and a letter (omega, Ω ?) in one corner. Below this corner the preserved edge ... 8 April 1936 |
Horse-shoe-shaped object, broken at the back, chipped on the upper surface; broken along the bottom, but the ornament complete.
Border wavy lines; within, Christian monogram with stamped circles. Unglazed ... 27 April 1936 |
Mended from two fragments; broken below collar; nose missing. Eyes bored. Mold made with careful join; remains of glaze inside, at mouth end.
Cf. BMC Lamps, pl. VI, no. 85 and Alexandria Museum no. 6502 ... 5 May 1932 |
| Fragments of a bell krater preserving the profile to the base. Restored in plaster. Black rim, egg below; stopped maeander to left below the picture.
A) Two male figures, facing: that at the right, a ... 25 May 1951 |
About half of a long rectangular lug handle, with part of some ornament rising at the center. Impressed ovules on a raised band along the edge of the rectangular portion.
Pinkish-orange clay; dull rather ... 16 June 1947 |
Three joining fragments. Large chip from one side and edges of leaf missing. A large, plastic acanthus leaf attached to a handle, perhaps for a lamp.
Dull black glaze, much worn. Stored with imported ... March 1933 |
No join between top and bottom; restored in plaster.
Ring foot, short plump body with very tall tapering neck, round mouth with flaring rim, groove in vertical edge of lip. Body covered with slightly ... 12 June 1939 |
First interpretation: satyr mask.
Slave mask in high relief, with pierced grooved handle (like Roman lamp handles) above.
Traces of metallic black glaze almost entirely peeled off.
Gray clay. Well, dump, ... 24 July 1946 |
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