Oil lamp
This oil lamp is decorated with an image of a dolphin and a lion’s head. It was found in Syria, but was probably made in Greece.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/14
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Material
- potteryterracottaslip
- Common Name
- oil lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Classical - 500-336 BC; Hellenistic - 336-146 BC
- Production Year Low
- -399
- Production Year High
- -200
