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LOT 0834
Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with Amphora
2ND CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (56 grams, 97 mm).
Squat in profile with small loop handle and D-shaped nozzle, discus with low-relief vessel and foliage; maker's mark to underside 'MNOVIVST'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, no.329, p.231, for type.
FootnotesThe lamp belongs to the Bussière type, form D I 3, from a period between the Late Flavian era to the second half of the second century A.D. Like the types of this category, the ring handle shows two grooves on the upper part and the filling hole is in the lower part.
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