Agora Object: L 4490
Inventory Number:   L 4490
Section Number:   ΠΠ 519
Title:   Lamp: Maker's Mark
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Λύχνος με ανάγλυφη παράσταση των Λύτρων του Έκτορα Mέσα 3ου αι. μ.Χ.
Category:   Lamps
Description:   Mended from many pieces; a few fragments of rim, nozzle and wall restored in plaster; chips missing.
Large lamp with double-pierced handle, double grooved above and below. Rim panelled, with stamped ovules. Reverse flat, outlined by two circular grooves, enclosing the signature.
Discus, relief representations of Priam appealing to Achilles; helmet in exergue below. Behind Achilles (seated left, but with head turned back and resting on raised left hand), a veiled female figure. Kneeling at Achilles' feet, and clasping his right hand, Priam. Behind him, a nude youth standing left, holding a horse; the youth also mourns, with right hand raised to mouth.
Unglazed.
Pinkish-buff clay.
Type XXVII of Corinth collection.
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ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Ενεπίγραφος Ρωμαϊκός λύχνος, τύπου XXVII, με ανάγλυφη παράσταση Πριάμου και Αχιλλέως. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το χείλος και το μυκτήρα του ευρήματος (3ος αιώνας μ.Χ).
Context:   East continuation of House D, Room 1, on floor. From the floor of a house on the N.E. slope of the Hill of Nymphes, dating in 267 A.D.
Notebook Page:   1352
Negatives:   Leica, XXXIII-9, XXXIII-10
PD Number:   PD 1375-91
Dimensions:   H. 0.04; P.L. 0.144; W. 0.125
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   24 April 1948
Section:   ΠΠ
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 9 (1963), fig. 39.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), pl. 46, 1.
    AJA 52 (1948), pl. LV, B.
    Agora VII, no. 637, pp. 109-110, pl. 15.
References:   Publication: Agora VII
Publication: AgoraPicBk 9 (1963)
Publication: Hesperia 18 (1949)
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 220, p. 204
Publication Page: Agora 7, s. 238, p. 222
Drawing: PD 1375-91 (DA 11907)
Images (10)
Notebook: ΠΠ-4
Notebook: ΠΠ-7
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-4-62 (pp. 714-715)
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-7-81 (pp. 1352-1353)
Card: L 4490
Card: L 4490