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Collection Item: Oil Lamp
Basic info
- Collection
- Archaeology
- Object name
- Oil lamp
- Object category
- Roman
- Description
- Incomplete firmalampen (factory lamp) of Loescheke (1919) Type X. Rounded, lamp with a shallow basin and two circualr perforations. The mouth is broken. A short, thick handle at the back is also broken. A squat, pedestal foot is on the underside. Moulded decoration on upper face consists of a stylised Chi-Rho (XP) symbol in the basin surrounded by a repeating freize of alternating ovals and crosses. The lamp had been fired.
- Production date start
- 100
- Production date end
- 250
- Period
- Roman
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : H896
- Alternative number
- C896
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 13682
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Ceramic (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 5.0 cm
- Whole width 12.4 cm
- Whole depth 8.3 cm
