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An oil lamp, made of either bronze or terracotta, would have stood on the bell-shaped top. Such an arrangement formed the normal way of providing artificial lighting in the main rooms of a Roman house. A number of similar candelabra have been found at Pompeii and the other sites that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
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Title: Bronze candelabrum (lamp stand)
Period: Early Imperial
Date: ca. 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H.: 51 in. (129.5 cm)
Classification: Bronzes
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908
Object Number: 08.258.15
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