Object Description
A Roman terracotta oil lamp featuring a decorated concave discus. Within its centre is a depiction of a bird with long legs and a long beak, most likely a stork. The scene is surrounded by three concentric circles with the filling hole located slightly to the right beneath the bird’s leg. The discus sits above a wide voluted nozzle, with a large circular burn hole at its centre. The reverse features a raised base ring with an incised maker’s mark of a planta pedis. This lamp belongs to the Loeschcke type I C group, which is characterised by its circular body, and a wider angular nozzle flanked by two volutes.
Date: Circa 1st Century AD