Oil lamp depicting a stork
This Roman oil lamp is decorated with the image of a stork with its beak to its chest. Birds and animals were common images on oil lamps.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A512
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- oil lamp depicting a stork
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman Republican - 509-31 BC; Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
