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Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
LATE 2ND CENTURY B.C.
3 3/4 in. (99 grams, 94 mm).
With low, swelling, globular body with unpierced lug on left side, rounded inward-sloping rim marked off by a shallow outer groove; large filling-hole, short rounded nozzle with large oval wick-hole, small raised circular base. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Ex P.A. collection, Hertfordshire, UK, 1990s.
LITERATURE:
See Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, no.16, p.18.
FOOTNOTES:
According to Howland, this type (33A), attested in the Athenian Agora during a period from the last quarter of the third century B.C. to the third quarter of the second century, is not well defined: ‘Its forms are irregular, not following a definite set pattern’. Specimens are also recorded in Magna Graecia (Paestum).
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