RB013
Roman bronze Pan lamp.
1st century BC – 1st century AD.
Length: 9.2 cm. (3 5/8 in.).
Missing lid and inlayed eyes, pin hole at the nose, otherwise complete. Very fine green patina.
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Pan, the Greek god of shepherds and hunters, is crouching, holding his exaggerated
phallus, which forms the lamp nozzle and his tail forms the lamp handle. He has two
horns, pointed ears and the lower body of a goat.
This figurative lamp is finely modeled with the expressive face of Pan and with the
incised details, including the hairy goat legs.
Cf. Walters., – Lamps BM 1914, Cat. No. 9, Plate 1, p. 3
Walters., – Lamps BM 1914
Walters H.B., Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Lams in the British Museum, Oxford University Press, London, 1914
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