3-037-053 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Lamp, 1st century B.C.-4th century A.D. Additional Info: Moldmade. Ring handle with one groove in the back of the bed, supporting a kind of bowl pierced by a filling-hole. Big-bellied nude Silenus half lying on reclined seat, resting on a wineskin, a mantle partly covering his shoulders; he is half bald with a large curly beard and moustache; both his hands are holding a bowl, which in fact is the rounded nozzle of the lamp, pierced by a wick-hole. Flat plain base.