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lamp, oil

human history
  • Description

    lamp, oil. The object is a roman oil lamp with a circular oil chamber and a concave discus. There is a off centre medium sized filling hole. There is a figure and vegetation in raised relief on the discus. There is also impressed pattern on the shoulder and the handle is broken off. The nozzle is chipped and blackened around the wick hole. The fabric is a unglazed terracotta and there is a faint impressed pattern on the base of the lamp.

  • Accession Number
    1943.84
  • Accession Date
    1943
  • Other Id

    26942.5 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Archaeology

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  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26942.5, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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