Object: B 455
Inventory Number: B 455
Section Number: Σ 1497
Title: Lamp: Ithyphallic Figure
Category: Bronze
Description: Bearded figure wearing a short straight cloak from which the phallos which served as lamp nozzle projects.
Filling hole in top of head. Pierced at the temples with a small hole throught which passes a bronze wire knotted together at the top for suspension. From the back of the neck project two lugs, pierced horizontally.
Notes: With coins for the day nos. 24-26.
Context: Late Roman layer, with slight traces of burning.
Storage: Study Collections-Case No. 88-7
Negatives: Leica, 7-339, V-88, V-89
Dimensions: H. 0.089; W. 0.032; Th. 0.070
Date Of Discovery: 11 May 1937
Section: Σ
Grid: Σ:21-25/ΝΘ
Elevation: 60.40m.
Longitude: 23.723848
Latitude: 37.975229
Bibliography: AgoraPicBk 9 (1963), no. 71.
 Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 356, fig. 44.
 Agora VI, p. 72, pl. 24, no. 904.
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