Lamp, Roman

Mould-made pottery lamp with a rounded-tipped nozzle with shoulder-volutes, a rounded shoulder decorated with impressed ovules, and an inward-sloping moulded rim. At the rear is a broken ring-handle. Between the nozzle volutes is an air-hole. The discus is decorated with two gladiators, a samnite and a hoplomachus, fighting. Below them is the inscription "ACVVIVS.V HERMEROSS." GIVING their names, Acuvius and Hermeros. In the centre of the slightly raised base is a foot-print with traces of relief letters. Covered with a finger-marked orange-brown slip. Museum number: 1856,1226.472 © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. See: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1856-1226-472