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A Roman Bronze Lamp from Colchester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

G.M.R. Davies  and
Janet Webster
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 74 - 75
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1973

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References

page 74 note 1 Colchester and Essex Museum no. P.C.119.

page 74 note 2 See Journal of the British Archaeological Association, V (1850), 136–7.Google Scholar

page 74 note 3 Cf. Hull, M. R., Roman Colchester (Soc. of Ant. Report XX, 1958), p. 250Google Scholar for a summary of the West Lodge burials.

page 75 note 1 Ibid., pp. 250–4 and pl. XLIII

page 75 note 2 The Zugmantel lamp illustrated by Thompson(op. cit., pl. XXVII) must have had a similar drilling of the eyes to pierce the head resulting in the break to the top of the head.

page 75 note 3 A similar piece of glass is extant on the Zugmantel lamp, cf. O.R.L. B.II i (Zugmantel), p. 94 no. 19, and Taf. XIII, no. 38.

page 75 note 4 Toynbee, J. M. C., Art in Britain under the Romans (1964), pp. 10–11Google Scholar.

page 75 note 5 See J. Webster, Some Bronze Statuettes from Roman Britain: The Olympian Deities in the British Museum(forthcoming).

page 75 note 6 The Zugmantel and Lincoln lamps have been assigned to an early third-century date; see Thompson, op. cit., p. 103.