Lamp with Phrygian mask

Bronze lamp, with piriform body, made by the "hollow cast" technique. The disc extends on the surface of the beak and around the lighting hole and is framed by a flat outer border, doubled by a curved border. It has a filling hole in the center of the tank, and the foot is tronconic. The handle, flat and curved, ends with a mask with a human figure, styled with curls and tails, wearing a Phrygian hat on his head.

Dimensions: Height = 10.7 cm; Length= 19 cm. It has small damaged surfaces.

Place of discovery: Mamaia (Constanţa, Constanța County), in a tomb of limestone slabs like a sarcophagus. In the Museum of National History and Archeology Constanța Collection; Inv. no. 16.044.

Dated: second half of the 1^st century AD. and the first half of the 2^nd century AD.

Bibliography: Constantin Iconomu, Opaițe greco-romane [Greco-Roman lampes], Constanța, Muzeul Regional de Arheologie Dobrogea,1967, p. 156-157, fig. 1 at p. 5; Gavrilă Simion, Opaițe greco-romane de bronz din România [Greco-Roman bronze lampes from Romania], Cluj-Napoca - Tulcea, Editura Nereamia Napocae, 2003, p. 55, Pl. XXI.