Terracotta oil lamp

Roman

Not on view

Vessberg Type 20. Mold-made. Flat, lentoid shape, with impressed decoration. Large, central filling hole, surrounded by a circular groove, then by a star pattern of nine lunettes; within lunettes, small, impressed circles with raised dots (three lunettes containing a single circle, two containing two circles, and three containing three circles); towards the edge of top, a stylized chevron pattern comprising a central circular groove, flanked by small, impressed dots; the pattern is indistinct around the front half of the lamp to either side of the wick hole. On the bottom, at center a plain, flat base, surrounded by two circular grooves flanking a row of impressed dots; and, at front and back, two projecting sets of two impressed lines, each containing a row of small, impressed dots.

Intact.

Terracotta oil lamp, Terracotta, Roman

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