Late Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp Fragment Group

4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.

2 3/8 - 4 3/4 in. (123 grams total, 59-12.2 cm).

Comprising: an oil lamp fragment with a stub handle at the rear, the rim with a frieze of bearded profile busts, the discus with a seated figure facing; the other fragment with a raised ledge below, the rim with a frieze of bearded profile busts alternating with amphorae, discus showing the lower part of a folded garment(?). [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

Found at Caerleon Bathhouse, Newport, Wales, UK.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

CONDITION

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