Terracotta oil lamp
Broneer Type 28. Mold-made, with unpierced handle. Discus: bust of helmeted Athena, facing left; a single filling hole at edge to right; around discus, a band of two raised concentric lines, surrounded. Shoulder: stylized wreath interrupted by panels at sides. A small hole at the back of the nozzle. Incised lines running along length of the handle. Within an impressed base ring, a flat base impressed with the Greek letters EY.
Intact.
The base of the handle appears to have been made with the lamp in the mold; the top and front was then carelessly added with a plain bridge joining the two parts.
The lamp was made in Athens and is decorated appropriately with the bust of Athena (Roman Minerva) on the discus.
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