Clockwise from bottom left: pottery lamp decorated with thyrsos on nozzle, Egypt, 200-50
BC; bronze lamp with crescent handle decoration, Europe, 30-100 AD; pottery lamp with discus depicting Cupid playing
at Mars with wicker shield and spear, Italy, 30-90 AD; pottery lamp with discus depicting speared stag within myrtle-wreath
border, North Africa, 175-250 AD; pottery lamp with two nozzles, crescent handle decoration and discus depicting
cista with two snakes, Asia Minor, 60-100 AD; pottery lamp with stylised frog moulded on upper surface, Egypt,
150-350 AD; pottery lamp moulded as head of African youth, Egypt, 150 BC-50 AD. |