BBC - A History of the World - Object : Oil LampThis terracotta lamp decorated with two fishes and a horse would have been used by the ancient Romans for artificial light; it would have been ...

Christopher Dale. These are two lamps given to me by my father who, in his words, 'went into the coal' when he was 13. He used a poney called Whitey to pull coal tubs and would be caned by the ...

The large lamp is almost 24 inches in diameter and weighs 127.25 pounds. It was found in a ditch on land owned by the Cortonese noblewoman Luisa Bartolozzi Tommasi in 1840, along with an inscribed ...

Horizontal rectangle. Designs for a standing and a hanging oil lamp. At left, a Corinthian column, around the shaft of which a laurel bough is wound, rises from a base which is supported by knobs. The ...