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San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Beryl N. and Henry G. McCleary.
Frog Lamp
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Beryl N. and Henry G. McCleary.

Frog Lamp

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureEgyptian
Date3rd-4th century A.D.
MediumFired clay
Dimensionsh. 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)
w. 2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm)
d. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Beryl N. and Henry G. McCleary
Object number2012.25.3
Geography
Place madeEgypt
DescriptionThe top of the lamp is decorated with a stylized frog in relief, with ridges flanked by volutes in place of its head between the fill hole and nozzle. The clay is a pale buff color with red inclusions. A maker's mark is incised into base: alpha.Label TextGroup label with 2012.25.1 and 2012.25.4: Lamps decorated with frogs were popular in Egypt in the third and fourth centuries A.D. On some lamps of this period, the frog was depicted only in part, or replaced altogether by palm branches. (Jessica Powers, 2018)Provenanceacquired by Beryl and Henry McCleary in Egypt between 1963 and 1967; Beryl McCleary, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2012
Published ReferencesR. F. Chan, A Catalogue of Egyptian Lamps from the San Antonio Museum of Art (Honors thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2013), 11, no. 5.
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