Lamp

3D Model

Collection: Roman Archeology Dept.

Inv.-No.: CAR-K-468

Material: Ceramic

Dimensions: 10,2 × 8 × 3,6 cm

Dating: 3rd century AD

Wedding Lamp Oval, roughly shaped lamp, with a handle stud on the steep shoulders. Wide, high ridge, leading into a short nozzle, concave discus, a raised ring around the filling hole, with an inscription running around the filling hole on the discus: ECCIPE PATR(one) VE(nerius?) NVB(e) – “Take, Lord Venerius, marry!”, retrograde; thin relief letters influenced by italic script; readable outward, with the “O” from “Patrone” omitted from the beginning. Slanted, curved wall, base and surface smoothed, clay strongly glowing.

This object was digitized through the ‘Kulturerbe digital’ program of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport.