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Terracotta oil lamp (Object ID: D66)

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oil lamps
Local ID:
D66

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Abstract:
Terracotta lamp with a very round body and a depressed discus with rosette pattern. Some scaly black and orange (possibly glaze remnants) on light clay. Encrusted. Small central fill hole ringed by 12-lobed rosette inside a circle. No evidence of a handle. Spout articulated by ionic-column style curls and clearly added on at later date. Circular base. Byzantine. Faint sigilata.

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"Terracotta oil lamp (Object ID: D66) " Joukowsky Institute Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:kmbuaurp/

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    Joukowsky Institute Collection

    The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World possesses a collection of more than 2,000 artifacts, ranging in date from the Neolithic to the modern day, and generally Mediterranean in origin. The collection encompasses a wide variety of items …
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