Terracotta oil lamp

Roman

Not on view

Loeschcke Type 4. Mold-made. Deep body. Discus: rosette with thirty-three radiating petals, issuing from a band of three raised circle, within which a single small, central filling hole; band of lines and grooves around horizontal edge. Volutes flanking nozzle with large wick hole, and tiny air hole at back. Broad, raised base ring, and broad, flat bottom.

Intact.

Terracotta oil lamp, Terracotta, Roman

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