Roman Imperial Ancient Oil Lamp : Antiquities

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #750117
GD-368

Ancient Roman oil lamp from Asia Minor. Nice brown/black colour with lug handles. Small olive branch near the tip of the spout. Makers mark on the bottom: LMVNSVC Measures 4 inches in lenght.

See: Rosenthal-Sivan 99 also signed LMVNSVC.

For the workshop see Bonnet, 130-132.

Ancient Roman Imperial Oil Lamp : Antiquities

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #750111
GD-367

Here you find a lovely mouldmade ancient oil lamp. Brown/orange in colour with a portrait of a man under a Christian cross. Convex lower part and disk set off by a groove. From circa the 1st century A.D. Maker’s name on bottom AVFFRON. Measures 4 inches in length. Intact and in excellent condition!

Roman Oil Lamp W/Portrait

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #748234
Roman 102

A Classical Roman Oil Lamp With a Portrait.

This is a beautiful Roman lamp that most likely originates from North Africa. It is red-orange that has a recessed tondo bearing a relief portrait of a woman's head facing right. There is a decorated border with small oomphalos on the underside. This is a fantastic example of a Roman household lamp.... Click for details

Roman oil lamp decorated with a slave holding an amphor

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #747084
R17

A crisp and clearly moulded pottery oil lamp decorated with a figure of a slave holding a wine amphora. The decoration is undoubtedly intended to have been humorous and this lamp forms part of a group of depictions involving rather unflattering renderings of slaves performing menial tasks often involving wine-related artifacts. The lamp is signed on the base by the North African lamp-maker CIVNDRAC. Roman, 1st or early 2nd Century AD Neatly repaired from three large pieces with no losses. Si... Click for details

Late Roman pottery oil lamp

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #747080
U64

A small pottery oil lamp of simple construction with a round body and a single lug handle. Roman, Eastern Empire, c. 4th Century BC A couple of stabilised cracks, otherwise intact Size: 7.2 x 6.1 cms Ex. private collection, Cheshire, UK.

SHALLOW TERRA-SIGILLATA DISH, FRANCE, 1st ctry. A.D.

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #745982

SHALLOW TERRA-SIGILLATA DISH, La Graufesenque, Southern France, Roman, 1st ctry. A.D., red clay with potter's stamp OFCAN [Officina Canti], one missing shard at rim professionally, almost invisibly replaced, body intact, diam. 16 cm. - AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED !!! (shipment Europe: free, overseas: EUR 20)

Roman lamp decorated with drunken Silenos

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #744733
R9

A red slip glazed pottery oil lamp with moulded decoration. The discus of the lamp is moulded with a humorous scene depicting the drunken Silenos riding an ass in a rather hap-hazard fashion. Silenos was a generally benign demi-god associated with the perils of excessive drinking! The lamp is signed on the base by the maker: LUCCFOR or CUCCFOR. Roman, circa 2nd Century AD Intact apart from the surface chips visible in the photographs. Size: 11.3 x 3.7 cms Provenance: Ex. private collection... Click for details

Roman lamp decorated with Pan

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #744731
R12

A moulded red pottery oil lamp of the shape known as "Firmalampen". The tondo is moulded in high relief with a frontal-facing head of the god Pan shown with typical long bearded face and goat's ears. (Pan is thought to have been the iconographic source for early Christian images of the devil). The lamp is signed in reverse on the base: OCIVAI. Roman, 1st - 3rd Century AD Intact apart from some very minor surface chips. Size: 10.3 x 3.6 cms Provenance: Ex. private collection, Somerset, UK. A... Click for details

Roman decorated pottery dish

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #744729
R1

A pottery dish coated in an orange/light red glossy slip and decorated with stamped and incised decoration. The underside of the dish is decorated with a series of diagonal lines under the rim, the front is decorated with three stylised shields within a series of concentric incised circles. Roman, North African colonies, c. 4th or 5th Century AD Repaired from three large pieces as seen in the photographs. Size: 19.1 x 3.5 cms Ex. private collection, UK. Acquired in London during the 1980'... Click for details

MINIATURE ROMAN TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP, 100 AD

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #742303

An ancient Roman unique miniature terracotta oil lamp with a tiny filling hole and burning hole! The Oil lamp is dating to 100 AD

Measurements: 4 cm- Width: 2.5 cm

Condition: Very good condition

Found in Israel ... Click for details