During this summer excavation in Delos (Cyclades), many fragments of a molded lamp with an elaborate decoration (grapevine scroll motiv, palmette, Eros, head of a satyr, knotted handle) have been discovered in an early 1st century BC destruction layer. The fabric is very friable and breaks into small pieces. Does anyone have an idea of its potential origin ?
I had unfortunately no time to mend the sherds and to draw it, but will be done next Spring !
Dear coleagues,
This fragment from a glass vessel is bugging me for some time now, as I am not able to identify it with any shape. Based on its context (=a monumental cist tomb from Macedonia, Greece) we are looking at a late 4th-century BC date. The different angles offered here are exactly because of the fact that I do not know exactly how to place it. The recession that seems to form on one side points a ‘ceramically-trained’ mind towards a fish-plate, but to my knowledge the shape is not replicated in glass. Does anything come to mind?