Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with a Rhinoceros Image (Illustration)

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published on 23 January 2018

Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with a Rhinoceros Image — This terracotta oil lamp was produced on Cyprus during the first half of the 1st Century CE. The discus has an engraved image of a rhinoceros tossing a large cat with its horn.
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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