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LOT 1062
Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp
CYPRUS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
3 3/8 in. (45.1 grams, 86 mm).
Round body with plain discus with pelletted border, label on the base '2nd c. AD M10'. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Oxfordshire, UK, by direct descent from the collection of Judge George Cyril Griffith-Williams (1893-1983), Supreme Court Judge of the Colony of Cyprus; items having been collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Cyprus during his tenure there.
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