Subject
Globular shaped oil lamp showing an erotic scene. It was part of the funerary equipment in the tomb 12 of the Fioranello Road’s necropolis.
Accession number 22.M322-1.25.
Height cm 9; width cm 7; depth cm 2.
Not completely intact.
Around 40-80 A.D.
Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage)
Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà)
References
L. De Angelis e F. Turchetta, Lucerna con scena erotica in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 597-598.
