Lamp, Type IIA | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. A.D. 420–500

Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 1 3/8 × 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (3.5 × 8.3 × 14 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William L. Eagleton, Jr., B.A. 1948
Accession Number: 1989.69.12
Culture: Roman, North African
Period: Roman, 5th century A.D.
Classification: Lighting Devices
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Provenance

Ambasador and Mrs. William L. Eagleton, Jr., acquired in Tunisia; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1989.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 304, no. 122, pl. 122

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Object/Work type

lamps (lighting devices)

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