Oil Lamp with Figure of Eros

1st century CE (Roman Imperial)

6 cm 8.5 cm

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Roman artifacts, such as this simple, inexpensive, terracotta oil lamp, often turned up in excavations. They were even found in the Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium), through which ran the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.

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Mrs. G. Ashton Sutherland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, February 8, 1972, by gift.
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