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Reference: AC1 / Cat. No.
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Period:
Hellenistic / Roman
Origin:
Europe or eastern Mediterranean
Date:
50 BC – 300 AD
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Description:
Tripod stand, legs linked by three-lobed protrusions (vine-leaves?) and terminating in pad feet shaped as hooves. Nodulated shaft.
Fabric:
Copper alloy.
Manufacture:
Cast.
Size (cm):
W. 12.0, H. 1.9 [inc. shaft: 8.9]
Condition:
Base only (shaft section may be alien).
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Notes:
Cf. BMC IV, Q3885-93; Hayes, Metalware, 161, 231-2; Bussière & Lindros Wohl, 622; Simion 2003, 55.
A tripod stand with similarly leaf-webbed legs was excavated at Ostia in an insula context dating no later than the 3rd century AD (Bakker 2000, B19).
Ex Robert Flourance Collection.
Comments:
The shaft of a lampstand of this period was typically topped by a circular tray on which a lamp was placed and/or by arms from which lamps were suspended. The shaft itself was sometimes composed of two or more sections that joined together (e.g. Roberts 2013, p.120).
The bucolic leaf and hoof decoration is a Dionysian theme.
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