Achilles drags Hektor
- Title
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Achilles drags Hektor
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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handle of lamp
Lamp-ornament
Lamp
Handle
- Creator
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unknown
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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unknown Ancient Roman (artist)
- Description
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Pierced handle from a mould-made pottery lamp with a triangular ornament depicting Achilles dragging the body of Hector behind his chariot; Hecuba and Priam watch from the walls of Troy. Drab buff, micacaeous, covered with patchy red-brown slip. Plaster mould. --The British Museum
Bailey, Donald Michael, Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1975; Walters, H B, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Lamps in the British Museum, London, BMP, 1914; Brommer, Frank, Denkmälerlisten zur griechischėn Heldensage, II, Marsburg, Elwert, 1974
- View
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Top
- Coverage
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Tall Atrīb, Jazīrat, Egypt (discovery)
- Temporal
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late 1st century CE
- Subject
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Book 22-24
Dragging Hektor
Iliad II
- Style Period
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Broneer Type XXI
Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type
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lamps (lighting devices)
- Date
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0075/0100
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_01301
- Item Locator
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Box 3, Section 16
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Length: 18.3 cm Width: 11.74 cm
- Material
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pottery | slipped; pierced; mould-made
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
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1873,0609.46