Lamp with Eros and Psyche

Classification

plastic lamp

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture); Roman

Dimensions

height: 11.5 cm

Period

Roman Imperial Period (Egypt, 30 B.C. – 395 A.D.)

Material

clay

Iconography

Eros ; mantle ; floral wreath ; Psyche ; chiton ; lamp

Production place

Egypt

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.498

ID

Hyp-933

Condition

Eros's left hand and mouth of flask modern restorations.

References

Reitzenstein 1914, 5–6, pl. 1, fig. 2; Oroszlán 1930, 72, D 89; Icard-Gianolio: Psyche, in LIMC VII (1994), no. 89; Török 1995, 49, no. 43

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.