Plate CXXXIX
Grjeco-Roman lamps. Mostly of brownish red ware ; but Nos. 1020, 1023, 1025-1029
are of different, lighter colored clay. All the lamps are monomyxi.
1014. Extreme length, yA inches. Crater round, with long nasus. Discus and limbus
with raised egg patterns. Double wing on the side.
1015. Extreme length, 3 inches. Shape much like the last, without the wings. Discus
and limbus bevelled in opposite directions, separated by a circular groove. Projection on one
side ; but not pierced.
1016. Extreme length, 4% inches. Nasus with scroll ears. Conventional scrolled vine
on limbus ; pinnate spray on ansa.
1017. Extreme length, 3^ inches. Section outline much like that of No. 1014; but
lamp raised on a foot; funnel-mouthed infundibulum ; ansa ; and ear for suspension on the side.
1018. Diameter, 3% inches. Centre of discus raised, with grooved ring about
infundibulum ; ansa.
1019. Extreme length, yA inches. Circular; long nasus, with small ears.
1020. Extreme length, y/2 inches. Circular; with long nasus; projection on one side;
raised flat ring about infundibulum.
1021. Extreme length, 4^ inches. Much like No. 1016, but without ornament. Ears
of nasus without scrolls.
1022. Height, 2% inches. Infundibulum, in form suggesting a cyathus, but not of that
class. Tapering spout on the side, distant from the handle about one third of the circumference.
Of fine Roman red ware.
1023. Length, 3 inches. Rudely formed, decorated with incised patterns. Ansa a mere
pinched up mass of clay. Of light colored clay.
1024. Length, y/A inches. Discus decorated with raised geometrical patterns ; nasus
with long scrolls.
Grjeco-Roman lamps. Mostly of brownish red ware ; but Nos. 1020, 1023, 1025-1029
are of different, lighter colored clay. All the lamps are monomyxi.
1014. Extreme length, yA inches. Crater round, with long nasus. Discus and limbus
with raised egg patterns. Double wing on the side.
1015. Extreme length, 3 inches. Shape much like the last, without the wings. Discus
and limbus bevelled in opposite directions, separated by a circular groove. Projection on one
side ; but not pierced.
1016. Extreme length, 4% inches. Nasus with scroll ears. Conventional scrolled vine
on limbus ; pinnate spray on ansa.
1017. Extreme length, 3^ inches. Section outline much like that of No. 1014; but
lamp raised on a foot; funnel-mouthed infundibulum ; ansa ; and ear for suspension on the side.
1018. Diameter, 3% inches. Centre of discus raised, with grooved ring about
infundibulum ; ansa.
1019. Extreme length, yA inches. Circular; long nasus, with small ears.
1020. Extreme length, y/2 inches. Circular; with long nasus; projection on one side;
raised flat ring about infundibulum.
1021. Extreme length, 4^ inches. Much like No. 1016, but without ornament. Ears
of nasus without scrolls.
1022. Height, 2% inches. Infundibulum, in form suggesting a cyathus, but not of that
class. Tapering spout on the side, distant from the handle about one third of the circumference.
Of fine Roman red ware.
1023. Length, 3 inches. Rudely formed, decorated with incised patterns. Ansa a mere
pinched up mass of clay. Of light colored clay.
1024. Length, y/A inches. Discus decorated with raised geometrical patterns ; nasus
with long scrolls.