Oil Lamp (Greek-Carthaginian (2nd century B.C.)) by Kalliopi Kasotaki [GLB]

Oil lamp

Light gray tone. Intact.
Non-handle circular lamp with wide protruding muzzle with large firing hole. In the center of the recessed mirror, a large filling hole surrounded by profiled ridge, around which four other small holes are regally deepened. On the shoulder the warty remains of a lateral handle. Distinctive stepped stand ring. (Oil lamp No. 151 in Fless 1997: 144)

Height: 3,5 cm
Width (Diameter): 5,1 cm
Width (Bottom): 3,2 cm
Length: 7,6 cm

Loan of Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung; there is a second lamp with the same inventory number: Bl. 25, old inventory number 101a, with indication of the alleged origin: San Antioco, South Sardinia. Bought from: J. Komitzko, Hamburg

ID: O_25_b