Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2819. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Oil lamps] ROMAN. Syria-Palestine. Pottery oil lamp. Circa 2nd century AD. Length 8.5cm. Mold-formed pentalychnos with central scallop motif. Fill hole on discus, five nozzles, ring handle. A pseudo potter’s mark impressed in the base; •••• in rectangle. Pinkish-red colored clay with brick red slip on upper surface. Choice condition, heavy carbon deposits around nozzles. An unusually small size for a multi-wick lamp, and not very practical; it would have burned up the lamp oil very quickly.

From the Dr. Robert B. Beckett Collection.