Large impressive Augustan Period terracotta oil lamp manufactured by FAVSTI.
About FAVSTI’S workshop Donald Bailey (BM) thinks that, the origin is Italian that then moved to Petra and Egypt. A large quantity of FAVSTI oil lamps were also found in Cyprus including those of the Censola Collection at the Met.
Condition: Restored
Provenance: ex. collection of Ambassador G. P., nr. 126, before 1965
Item reference: CL0744
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