Object Description
A very fine Romano-Egyptian terracotta, mould-made oil lamp with a large, decorated ovoid body. The body features a small central filling hole and a burn hole situated at the nozzle. Differing from its Roman counterparts, this lamp has particularly thick walls. Known as a ‘frog’-type lamp, the raised decoration displays the crude form of a frog, viewed from a birds-eye-view, with legs splayed and enriched with hatched incisions. The reverse is flat and incised with the maker’s mark ‘A’ at the centre.
Date: Circa 2nd-4th century AD