Pottery lamp: small narrow lamp in classic design; 6 incised dots on handle; length 9 cm; width 4 cm; height 3 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northern Kom (Northern Palace), Deir el-Ballas, Upper Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Cemetery 1; Tomb 252 (revised to Northern Kom per V. Jensen, 2022-02-15).
Culture or time period:
Roman Empire (27 BC–395 AD)
Collector:
George Andrew Reisner
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Oil lamps and Pottery
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Comment:
According to Victoria Jensen (2022-02-15), "Provenience should be Northern Kom (Northern Palace). The Roman-era object was marked 252 but it did not come from the tomb of that number. Reisner recorded a series of objects numbered 250-275 from the North Palace including this lamp (Notebook D-3: 117).