Photos and basic inventory cards

Selected examples of lamps used by the Roman army

 

CATALOGUE

 

N1: 83.AQ.377.442; J. Paul Getty Museum

Description: complete lamp, clay -7.5YR7 / 4 pink, glaze 5YR5 / 6 yellowish red, moldmade, central filling-hole. Protruding rounded nozzle with semicircular raised wick-hole area; short nozzle neck with broad deep median groove between two slanted sides. Small air hole in the groove. Flat base marked off by two rings

Company stamp: FORTIS

Type: Buchi IX-b/ Loeschcke type IX b

Date: 1-2nd century A.D.

Measurements: L: 11.5 cm; W: 7.6 cm; H: 3.5 cm

 

N2: 83.AQ.377.534, J. Paul Getty Museum

Description: complete lamp, clay near 5YR6/6 reddish yellow, worn uneven remains of glaze 10R5/6 red, moldmade, Central filling-hole. ; short beveled nozzle neck with narrow and shallow median groove on top, flanked by two small oblique ridges, each ending in a small bead, separating nozzle from shoulder. Flat base marked off by two rings, outer one thicker than inner one

Type: Buchi IX-a var/

Date: 1st century A.D.

Measurements: L: 8.6 cm; W: 6.5 cm; H: 2.7 cm

 

N3: 83.AQ.377.441, J. Paul Getty Musuem

Description: nozzle bottom restored, clay 2.5YR6/6 light red, same color slip, moldmade,  large filling-hole in lower field. Small air hole in channel. Protruding long nozzle with rounded tip. Flat base marked off by two rings, the outer one slightly thicker than the inner one.

Company stamp: OCTAVI

Discus Iconography: Theater mask.

Type: Buchi X-a/Loeschcke type X

Date: 1-2nd century A.D.

Measurements: L: 10.2 cm; W: 7.0 cm; H: 3.1 cm