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Late Roman or Northern African ?
Red-slip lamp. Heart motif. Large fill hole.

Early Greek lamps (types 1 and 2) were open bodied "saucer" vessels with pulled-out nozzles for a wick to lay. They were unglazed and undecorated. Likely made in or near the Athenian Agora.

Type 3: Cocked Hat Lamp; Glazed and Wheelmade. Last quarter of 7th century B.C. Earliest use of the wheel and glaze in Greek lamp production. There is a flattened circular bottom from which the saucer-like flaring sides spread to form the body. The…