Terracotta oil lamp

Roman

Not on view

Vessberg Type 19. Mold-made, with applied conical handle. Sharply carinated body; central filling hole, surrounded by a raised circle; on shoulder, pattern of parallel, incised grooves around sides and back, and a pattern of impressed dots and short lines behind wick hole with raised rim; channel to wick hole. Flat base with two concentric grooves and a central dot.

Intact. The wick hole has been crudely formed in the central, plain discus.

Terracotta oil lamp, Terracotta, Roman

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