Lamp (3/4 from above)

Description: Moldmade. Miniature lamp. No handle, but the rear bulging tubular part of the basin may have served as such; this tubular section is hollow but not communicating with the oil basin. Body in the shape of a comic theater mask with large open mouth. The fruit on top of the head suggests, if not Bacchus himself, at least one of his followers (cf. 83.AQ.377.490). Filling-hole on forehead. Knit eyebrows but jolly expression with large open mouth, which is in fact an enormous wick-hole. Flat raised oval base.