Lamp
1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: Rosette of fourteen or fifteen petals within a circular flat band.
Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Convex shoulder with two rows of globules, separated from discus by a ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a narrow channel between them. Central filling-hole. Unpierced air hole facing the channel. Short round-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring; lower part of lamp is recorded as Eph. A, with large plain blurred planta pedis.
Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Convex shoulder with two rows of globules, separated from discus by a ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a narrow channel between them. Central filling-hole. Unpierced air hole facing the channel. Short round-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring; lower part of lamp is recorded as Eph. A, with large plain blurred planta pedis.
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