IDENTIFIERS
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id:	67345
accession number:	GR.211.1899

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: "Frog lamp". Such lamps were only manufactured in Egypt during the late Ptolemaic to early Roman periods. They were manufactured to celebrate the annual flooding of the Nile and replace earlier New Year flasks. There are often a wide variety of types, often featuring a whole frog or the legs with an additional motif. Corn and palms are also common motifs, as in this example.
title:	lamp

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/67345





CATEGORIES
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category: lighting equipment

DATING
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creation date:	201 - 400
creation date earliest:	201
creation date latest:	400
culture:	Late Antique


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7



CITATIONS
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Roman Egyptomania
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