Oil lamp
This oil lamp is recorded as being found in Babylon in 1912, when the area was part of the Ottoman Empire. In earlier times Mesopotamia had been part of the eastern-most Roman empire.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 164/1987
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- oil lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Republican - 509-31 BC; Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
