Inventory Number: | L 710 | |
Section Number: | Ζ 119 | |
Title: | Plastic Lamp | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Description: | Ithyphallic figure of Pan playing pipes. Mended from three pieces; complete save for chips. Mold made. Pan is seated cross-legged on a rock; he has horns, goat's legs, and pointed ears, and wears a cloak over his back and shoulders. A large phallus, which is the lamp proper, with nozzle, filling hole and oil reservoir, extends outward from below his knees. Behind his shoulders is a small pierced vertical handle with double groove, as in lamps of type XXVII-XXVIII of Corinth collection; the wick hole, surrounded by a raised band, recalls the nozzles of Type XXVII. Smal, pierced holes for the pupils. Purplish wash, in part worn off. Hollow; open beneath. Pinkish-buff clay. | |
Context: | In red earth; actually part of section Δ. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 3-155, LXIX-13, LXIX-14, 79-3-25(24), color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.159; Th. (at bottom) 0.069 | |
Date: | 6 March 1933 | |
Section: | Ζ | |
Grid: | Ζ:1/ΙΖ | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), fig. 28. | |
Agora VI, no. 999, p. 77, pl. 28. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora VI Publication: AgoraPicBk 19 (1980) Publication Page: Agora 6, s. 104, p. 92 Images (5) Notebook: Ζ-2 Notebook Page: Ζ-2-13 (pp. 207-208) Card: L 710 |