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LOT 0120
Late Roman Redware Oil Lamp With Daniel Standing
NORTH AFRICAN, 5TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 in. (196 grams, 14.5 cm).
With a lug handle and oval elongated body, two central filling-holes flanking the image of prophet Daniel enclosed within a decorative shallow border; two thin concentric circles on the base, possibly a blurred potter’s mark to the middle.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of the French archaeologist Suzanne Gozlan, 1921-2022.
LiteratureSee Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, nos.492-499, p.351ff.
FootnotesThe lamp belongs to the type Atlante X or Hayes II A. The so-called Christian lamps in Terra Sigillata Africana have been classified by Hayes into two major types, I and II. He has distinguished two classes in his type II, according to geographic place of manufacture or origin. Subtype II A group lamps from central Tunisia are characterised by a fine clay, glossy light orange slip, and carefully executed decoration using a great number of neatly drawn shoulder motives.
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