Dragging Priam
- Title
- Dragging Priam
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lamp-ornament Lamp Handle
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Roman (artist)
- Description
- 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
- Top
- Coverage
- Tall Atrīb, Jazīrat, Egypt (discovery)
- Temporal
- late 1st century CE
- Subject
- Books 22-24 Dragging Hektor Iliad II
- Style Period
- Broneer Type XXI Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type
- lamps (lighting devices)
- Date
- 0050/0100
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01325
- Item Locator
- Box 3, Section 25
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Length: 18.3 cm Width: 11.74 cm
- Material
- pottery | slipped; pierced; mould-made
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1873,0609.46
