Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

3 5/8 in. (101 grams, 91 mm).

Squat bulbous body with broad pelletted shoulder, stub nozzle and lug handle with lateral depressions. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Probably by descent from the vendor's father-in-law circa 2006.
From the private collection of a Devon, UK, lady.

Literature

Cf. Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, p.383ff., for the type, esp.no.525.

Footnotes

The lamp belongs to the Eastern variant of Loeschcke VIII type. Most of these lamps were made in Ephesus, where several wasters of Loeschcke type VIII lamps have been excavated. Comparative neutron activation analyses of clays have proved the manufacture of Ephesus lamps at Sardis as well as at Ephesus, and we may conjecture the existence of other production centres, for example, Pergamon, where an excavated kiln has yielded a mould and a lamp of Late Asia Minor type.

CONDITION

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