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LOT 0169
Byzantine Terracotta Oil Lamp with Chi Rho
5TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 in. (173 grams, 14.7 cm).
Piriform in plan with two small circular filling holes; rounded nozzle and basal ring with concentric rings; raised Christogram between the filling holes and raised ivy-leaf motifs.
Provenance
Marceaux Collection, France.
Private collection Mr. D, France, before 2000.
Literature
Cf. Rosenthal, R. & Sivan, R., Ancient Lamps in the Schloessinger Collection, 1981, items 491-495, for type.
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