Lighting DevicesRoman

Lamp with Figural Scene

Classification

Lighting Devices

Technique

Molded

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Period

Roman period

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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