3-037-023 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Lamp, 1st century B.C.-4th century A.D. Additional Info: Moldmade. Leaf-shaped handle ornament with large looped plain ring behind. Lamp in the shape of a head of a comic actor wearing a slave mask; thick hair, knit eyebrows, small holes for eyes, large open mouth with typical striated band around it, suggesting a beard. Short round-tipped volute-nozzle; small striated fans between nozzle and beard. Flat oval base marked off by one circular groove.