Terracotta oil lamp

Roman

Not on view

Late Loeschcke Type 8. Mold-made, with unpierced handle. Discus: charioteer driving to left behind two horses; a single filling hole at bottom. Broad, flat shoulder: double wreath of impressed dots. Large wick hole. Undefined, pushed-in base.

Front of nozzle broken and missing, with large hole in body below.

Terracotta oil lamp, Terracotta, Roman

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