Lamp 2

3D Model

Bronze lamp, with piriform body, made by the “hollow cast” technique. The disc extends on the surface of the beak and around the lighting hole and is framed by a flat outer border, doubled by a curved border. It has a filling hole in the center of the tank, and the foot is tronconic. The handle, flat and curved, ends with a mask with a human figure, styled with curls and tails, wearing a Phrygian hat on his head. Dimensions: Height = 10.7 cm; Length= 19 cm. It has small damaged surfaces. Place of discovery: Mamaia (Constanţa, Constanța County), in a tomb of limestone slabs like a sarcophagus. In the Museum of National History and Archeology Constanța Collection; Inv. no. 16.044. Dated: second half of the 1st century AD. and the first half of the 2nd century AD. Bibliography: Gavrilă Simion, Opaițe greco-romane de bronz din România [Greco-Roman bronze lampes from Romania], Cluj-Napoca - Tulcea, Editura Nereamia Napocae, 2003, p. 55, Pl. XXI.