Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with a Rhinoceros Image

Illustration

Arienne King
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 23 January 2018
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Terracotta oil lamp from Cyprus, 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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