A cute Roman grey ceramic lamp with a lion, 2nd Century AD, the lion depicted leaping within the concave discus with small fill-hole and border by ridges and grooves. The shoulders are bare with short, rounded nozzle and ring handle adorned with vertical grooves; on the underside a planti pedis on a low disk base bordered by a groove. L: 3 1/2 in 8.9 cm). Light weathering and deposits. Ex German private collection.

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