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LOT 0681
Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with Lion
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 3/8 in. (108 grams, 11.2 cm).
Loop handle to the rear, low discus with an advancing lion with its head turned to the right, hatched decoration on the shoulder; concentric circles to the base.
Provenance
Acquired on the European art market, 1980s.
English private collection.
Literature
Cf. Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, no.375, Loeschcke VIII; Bussière form D X 2b.
Footnotes
This lamp belongs to the group of Provincial African lamps with a plain shoulder and a heart-shaped nozzle. Usually they are classified as D IX, but Italic and African variants of D X are very similar and have the shoulders with closely spaced outward-slanted rays, separated from discus by two circular grooves, here hardly visible.
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