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A Graeco-Roman Bronze Lamp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

F. H. Marshall
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The beautiful bronze lamp, of which two views are here given, was recently acquired by Mr. T. Whitcombe Greene in Frankfort-on-Main. It is 146 mm. long, 76 mm. high, and is said to have been found in Switzerland.

The lamp is in the form of a boat, the raised bow of which contains the hole for the oil. There are two projecting nozzles on each side of the boat, pierced with holes for the insertion of wicks. Their position suggests that they are intended to represent the rowlocks. A border of small circles with centre-dots is engraved round the top margin of the lamp; five waves are incised on each side of the bow, and another wave at its point. Three pairs of engraved lines run under the boat, one pair along the line of the keel, and one on each side. Within a shallow depression at the stern end of the boat is a nude figure of the infant Heracles in a half-reclining attitude, with his right leg slightly drawn up.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 1908 , pp. 274
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1908

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References

1 Pindar, , Nem. i. 50 ff.Google Scholar; Theocr. xxiv.

2 Cat. of Bronzes, 1243.

3 Clarac, Pl. 301, No. 1953, and Pls. 781, 782.

4 Annali dell' Inst. 1863, Tav. Q. 2. For the various ancient monuments representing Heracles strangling the serpents, see J.H.S. xvi. (1896), pp. 145 ff.; Arch. Zeit. 1868, pp. 33 ff.; Athh. Mitth. 1878, p. 267.