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Roman pottery lamp
Complete lamp of Loeschcke type IV. Fine condition lacking only chips from discus and rim. Crisp chalk-white ware, no inclusions or mica; mottled orange or chestnut-brown slip with metallic sheen, darkening to brown-black in grooves and splashes. Voluted nozzle, sooted, with small breather-hole. Discus decorated in relief with rosette of four bilobate petals; central oil-hole, all encircled by two raised lines, then rim-band.
Rosettes such as this were common decoration for lamps made at this time (late 1st Century A.D.) and have been found in other areas of Caerleon such as the amphitheatre.
Source: David Zienkiewicz in Roman Pottery Studies, 1992
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Site Name: Museum Garden, Caerleon
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