A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 124
eral nozzles. The lamps might either besimply placed on a candelabrum or else suspended from it. Severalof the bronze lamps have chains for the latter purpose (No. 309 ;fig. 117). A peculiar bronze hook, of which there are severalexamples in these cases, was sometimes used in the Roman periodfor… … Fig. 116. — Bronze Lampfkom Enkomi (No. 308). HOUSE AND FURNITURE. 113 The numerous Graeco-Roman bronze lamps in these cases showa great variety of form. Heads of Seilenos, Pan, negroes, etc.,appear side by side with a fir-cone, a foot, a duck, a snail, or a wolf.The handles often terminate in an…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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