A Byzantine pottery oil lamp, c. 6th - 8th Century A.D.

A Byzantine pottery oil lamp, c. 6th - 8th Century A.D.

Code: 0829

£85.00

Description: A pottery oil lamp in orange clay of rounded triangular form decorated with a raised repeated quatrefoil design on the shoulder. The base chipped and traces of sooty deposits around the wick hole and some minor encrustation on the underside, otherwise condition good, from Syria.

Size: 97 mm/3.8 in. in length

Culture: Byzantine

Date: c. 6th - 8th Century A.D.

Provenance: From an old English private collection.