Terracotta oil lamp

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Loeschcke Type 4. Mold-made. Discus: a single filling hole at center, surrounded by two raised circles; two more raised lines form the inner edge of a band of close-set radiating lines that extends to a groove around the edge of the discus. The circular lines also form a sharply-pointed 'V' that extends though the band of radiating lines and onto the back of the nozzle. Undecorated, slightly sloping shoulder. Volutes flanking nozzle. Impressed ring base, and an uneven pushed-in base. Intact.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art