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A Roman oil lamp
Clay covered with black glaze
Height: 4.5cm
Diameter: 7.5cm, maximum
Diameter: 7.5cm, maximum
Museum number: HR23
On display: Picture Room Recess (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
An oil lamp in the shape of a circular, half oval body with spout and central hole; the handle, a stump of which remains, was to one side on the upper surface, opposite the spout. The central hole has a channel leading into the body but continues vertically through the centre, indicating that such lamps were intended to be mounted on stands with a projecting fastening. This lamp is Italo-Hellenistic work.
Unrecorded.
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