3D modely ART

Lamp with a frieze of military equipment at The British Museum, London

Title
Mouldmade lamp with a frieze of military equipment


Artist
Unknown Roman sculptor, made in Italy


Date
ca. AD 30-70


Medium
Bronze


Dimensions
x


Accession #
GR 1814.7-4.90 (Lamp Q 1005)


Credit
Townley Collection



Lamps were made in Classical lands from the Bronze Age onwards. They were used in the home, in shops, in public buildings such as temples and bath-buildings; lamps were carried in religious processions, dedicated at shrines and placed in tombs.
Ancient lamps were made in terracotta, metal, stone and glass. From Minoan times until about the 7th century BC, open bowls with a wick-rest at the rim were used. Terracotta lamps were wheelmade until the 3rd century BC, when the first mouldmade lamps were produced in Greek lands. Thereafter most classical lamps were mass-produced in moulds until the Arab conquests of the 7th century AD; lamp workshops were to be found in nearly every town. Bronze lamps, made as one-off objects by the lost-wax process, could be very simple or extremely complex. Conical glass lamps of late Roman times, with floating wicks, were suspended in holders.
This mouldmade lamp is decorated with a frieze of military equipment; the handle-ornament has an acanthus-palmette.
 

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