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Clay lamp holder in the form of Harpocrates

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Title/s	Clay lamp holder in the form of Harpocrates
Category	equipment
Name	utensil ?
Description	lamp holder, with youthful male head on rectangular plinth - a small votive lamp would have been placed in the bottom section.
Field Collection	Egypt
Dimensions	length 14.75 cm
Date	circa A.D. 100 — A.D. 200
Provenance	bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson, R.G. 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Ashton, S.A. (2004) Roman Egyptomania , London : Golden House Publications (2004) London: Golden House Publications [page: 108 & 109]
Material/s	clay
Accession Number	E.GA.2930.1943 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 57358; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Clay lamp holder in the form of Harpocrates