Terracotta oil lamp

Roman

Not on view

Mold-made, with ring (?) handle; Small, flat discus decorated with a seven-petalled rosette and a single, central filling hole, and surrounded by a raised circle; on horizontal shoulder, pattern of close-set raised dots, with a line of three circles at front; a raised cross with central dot on top of nozzle, and large wick hole. Undefined, flat base, with indistinct, vertical herring bone pattern as the maker's mark.

Body complete, but almost all of handle missing.

Terracotta oil lamp, Terracotta, Roman

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