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Pottery oil-lamp
50/90
British Museum
London, United Kingdom
This lamp is known as a volute-lamp, so called from the form of the nozzle. Its dark colour is not original, but a result of accidental burning in antiquity. The scene on the discus is of gladiatorial combat, a popular subject in Roman decorative art.
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Details
- Title: Pottery oil-lamp
- Date Created: 50/90
- Physical Dimensions: Length: 97.00mm
- External Link: British Museum collection online
- Subject: gladiatorial combat
- Registration number: 1856,0701.336
- Production place: Made in British Isles. Made in France
- Place: Found/Acquired Bush Lane
- Period/culture: Romano-British
- Material: pottery
- Copyright: Photo: © Trustees of the British Museum
- Acquisition: Purchased from Roach Smith, Charles
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