CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Eastern Mediterranean (Greece or Asia Minor)
DATE: 2nd – 1st Century BCE
DIMENSIONS:  4.3 cm (1.7 in.) long for the first, 5.4 cm (2.1 in.) long for the second.

DESCRIPTION: Intact. Two mould-made miniature Hellenistic ceramic oil lamps, one of typical late Hellenistic form, made from light brown clay with burn marks at the wick hole, the shoulder divided into eight slightly raised segments by impressed bands, the other lamp of fine grained pinkish clay with much of a brick red slip remaining, burn marks at the wick hole, with side lug and slightly raised disk foot, a two step raised rim around central filler hole.. Both lamps made for funerary use.

PROVENANCE: Ex. English private collection.