Object type
oil lamp
Culture/period
Roman world
Materials
pottery
Technique
moulding
Mint
Production date
1 / 50
Museum
Museu de Badalona
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Ciutat romana de Baetulo. Darrera ambulatori
Township
Badalona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelonès)
Dimensions
11,5 x 8,3 cm
Description
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Dressel / Lamboglia 11 B scroll lamp. The fabric is beige with traces of orange-brown varnish.
The decoration is an erotic scene depicting a fellatio. A woman, the fellatrix, with her knees on the bed, performs fellatio on a grotesque being, a satyr, who is playing a lyre. The satyrs were the companions of the god Bacchus and in this case they represent low human passions. The female character has bare buttocks and her breasts are covered with the strophium or fascia pectoralis, which is associated with prostitutes, and even more so in cases, like this one, in which it is intuited that she is wearing a wig.
Lamps with erotic scenes are numerous in the Roman world. Some of the most frequent scenes (symplegma), as in this case, take place on a bed (lectus cubicularis).
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Omeka ID
1902