Christian Lamp with Bust of a Saint (?)

Place of OriginLate Ancient Rome

Dateabout 420-550 CE

Dimensions2 × 2 3/4 × 5 in. (5.1 × 7 × 12.7 cm)

MediumEarthenware (North African Red Slip Ware), molded, slip-decorated, and fired

ClassificationUtilitarian Objects

Credit LineGift of Ruth Cordes Cantwell in memory of her father, George Cordes

Object number

2009.292

Not on View

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.Comparative ReferencesCf. Magness, Jodi. A Typology of the Late Roman and Byzantine Pottery of Jerusalem, Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1989.

. Cf. Knudsen, Sandra E. Romans and Barbarians, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, p. 126, cat. 145.

Cf. Hayes, John W. Late Roman Pottery, London, British School at Rome, 1972, “African Lamps,” pp. 310–315, pl. 21a.