Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2821. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Oil lamps] ROMAN. Syria-Palestine. Pottery oil lamp. Circa 4th-5th century AD. Length 12.5cm. Mold-formed trilychnos with central motif of a circle of annulets within a wreath. Fill hole on discus, triple nozzles, tab handle impressed with a cross. Pinkish-red colored clay. Choice condition. A rare early Christian motif lamp.

From the Dr. Robert B. Beckett Collection. Ex Antiqua IX (2000), Lot A12a.