Lamp with erotic scene

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1959 ΝΑΔ 145

Artist

Loukios' workshop

Category

Lamp

Period

Roman Period

Date

2nd cent. AD

Dimensions

Height: 0.035 m
Length: 0.076 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 2, No 46

Description
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Lamp depicting erotic scene in relief found in 1959 on the south slope of the Acropolis. The body’s front part as well as the nozzle are broken.

Its base is flat, the body hemispherical and the vertical handle pierced. The disk is adorned with the erotic encounter of a couple on a bed whereas the lamp shoulder with two incised concentric circles. On the base’s underside the inscription ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ stands for the workshop in which the lamp was made.

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