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Oil Bottle with Tragic Mask
Red-figured squat lekythos (oil-bottle) with a tragic mask (perhaps Electra's) and a stage.
Made in Lucania, Italy, c. 360-320 BCE.
British Museum, London.
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Circe On a 490–480 BCE Oil Jar, Athens-National Archaeological Museum
Circe and Odysseus, white-ground lekythos by the Athena Painter, ca. 490–480 BCE. From Eretria. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1133.
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Shell Lamp or Pouring Vessel
This shell was imported from modern-day Oman and was incised and decorated. One end (the upper one) was engraved with a bird's head; the bird's eye would have been inlaid with lapis lazuli. As a lamp, this shell would have contained oil...
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Lamp from Tiwal esh-Sharqi
The usual lamp from this period has four spouts. From analyses, it has been possible to identify the fuel used as fish oil. EBIV, 2400-2000 BCE. From Tiwal esh-Sharqi, Jordan Valley. (The British Museum, London).
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Roman Lamp Showing Lovers in Bed
The scene on this terracotta lamp depicts a man and woman having sex. Said to be from near Naples, in modern-day Italy. Roman period, made in Italy, about 10-30 CE. (The British Museum, London).
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Lamp Showing Isis, Harpocrates, and Anubis
The scene on this terracotta lamp depicts Isis, Harpocrates, and Anubis. The cult of the benevolent Egyptian goddess Isis was very popular in Italy. Said to be from Pozzuoli, in modern-day Italy. Roman period, made in Italy, about 50-100...
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Lamp Showing Satyrs Treading Grapes
The scene on this terracotta lamp depicts two satyrs treading grapes. From Herpes, France. Roman period, made in Italy, about 40-80 CE. Signed by the maker Gaius Clodius.(The British Museum, London).
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Lamp from Early Anglo-Saxon England
This iron lamp, comprising a round bowl on a tripod foot, still contains the remains of beeswax fuel, but no trace of a wick has survived. Iron lamps are extremely rare finds from early Anglo-Saxon England. So far they have been only found...
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Bronze Lamp Depicting Silenus
A bronze lamp in the form Silenus seated on a wine-skin. Silenus was a companion to the wine-god Dionysus. Roman period, made in Italy, about 50-150 CE. Townley Collection. (The British Museum, London).
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Lamp with Crescent Moon Handle, Pompeii
A ceramic lamp which features an image of the Egyptian god Zeus-Ammon above an eagle on the handle. Pompeii, 1st century CE. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, (National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia).
