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LOT 0546
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
CYPRUS, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/8 in. (60.5 grams, 80 mm).
Round body with raised rim on the filler hole, long tubular nozzle, and gently flaring foot; collection label on the base '4th c. BC, M6'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection, Oxfordshire, UK, by direct descent from the collection of Judge George Cyril Griffith-Williams (1893-1983), Supreme Court Judge of the Colony of Cyprus; items having been collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Cyprus during his tenure there.
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