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Terracotta oil lamp in form of dolphin (c30-80 CE) made in Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta oil lamp in form of sandaled foot (c50-100 CE) made in Italy, found in Libya at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Roman terracotta multi-nozzle ring-shaped oil lamp decorated with myrtle-wreath (c50-100 CE) made in Italy, found in Libya at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta oil lamp with Attis on a cult-car pulled by rams (c175-225 CE) made in Italy, found in Surrey? at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Roman bronze oil lamp in form of dolphin (c50-100 CE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Collection of Roman oil lamps (1stC-2ndC CE) made in Italy & France at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Collection of Roman oil lamps (1stC-2ndC CE) mostly made in England at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Roman oil lamps showing victorious chariot teams (1stC CE) made in Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Greek & Roman oil lamps (5thC BCE-3rdC CE) at Antikensammlungen. Munich, Germany. | Roman-era ceramic oil lamps with molded decorative scenes (c1stC) mostly found in Rhone River at Arles Antiquities Museum. Arles, France. | Roman terracotta oil lamps with gladiator scenes at Gallo Roman Museum. Lyon, France. | Collection of Roman oil lamps at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. |
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Collection of Roman oil lamps at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Roman ceramic oil lamps (1stC) at Trier Archaeological Museum. Trier, Germany. | Roman oil lamp with dolphin symbol of sea god (1st-2ndC CE) at Antikensammlungen. Munich, Germany. | Roman oil lamps (1st-2ndC) at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. |
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Roman era oil lamp at Historical Museum of City of Vienna. Vienna, Austria. | Roman oil lamp with charioteer (1st-2ndC) at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. | Roman terracotta oil lamps (100-300 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Roman terracotta oil lamps with themes of Ulysses (1-100 CE) at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. |
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Roman terracotta oil lamp with theater mask of satyr (1st-2ndC) at Musée de la Romanité. Nimes, France. | Terracotta lamp in shape of sandaled feet (1stC CE) at University of Missouri Museum of Art & Archaeology. Columbia, MO. | Oil lamp from Judea (c200 CE) at Jewish Museum of Florida. Miami Beach, FL. | Clay oil lamps on stand shaped like woman (c1stC) at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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Roman-era ceramic hanging oil lamp with 20 spouts (c1stC-2ndC) mostly found in Rhone River at Arles Antiquities Museum. Arles, France. | Roman-era bronze, iron & ceramic oil lamps at Bavarian State Archaeological Collection. Munich, Germany. | Roman terracotta oil lamp with chariot racer (c50 CE) from Asia Minor at Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, ON. | Roman clay oil lamps with gladiator images (c50 CE) from Italy & middle east at Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Collection of Mediterranean earthenware oil lamps (Roman era) at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. | Terracotta late-Roman oil lamp with Christian symbol (450-550 CE) from North Africa at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. | Collection of Roman ceramic & bronze oil lamps (2ndC BCE - 3rdC CE) at Musée de la Romanité. Nimes, France. | Roman bronze hanging lamp with lions & dolphins (1stC CE) from Paris at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Roman bronze lamp with moon goddess Luna crossing night sky on chariot pulled by bulls (1stC CE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Bronze oil lamp (2nd half 1stC CE) at Musée de la Romanité. Nimes, France. | Roman bronze lamp with horse's head handle (1stC CE) at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Roman bronze lamp is shape of comic actor (75-125 CE) at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. |
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Roman bronze lamp (1st-2ndC) at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI. | Italian bronze lamp (300s) at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI. | Byzantium bronze lamp with Griffin-head handle (300-400s) at Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH. | Egyptian bronze lamp (5thC) at Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, PA. |
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Iberian iron oil lamp supported by cows at Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain. | Chinese glazed earthenware oil lamp (618-907 - Tang Dynasty) at Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, PA. | Inuit soapstone oil lamp (Kudluk) at Vancouver Maritime Museum. Vancouver, BC. | Corncob & wax wick candle served settlers in time of shortage at Museum of Mississippi History. Jackson, MS. |
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Cruise lamp brought over on Mayflower (1620) by Edward Doty at Mayflower Society House. Plymouth, MA. | Three-wick gimballed ship's lantern (c1684) excavated from La Belle Shipwreck (lent: TX Historical Commission) at Bullock Texas State History Museum. Austin, TX. | Young Abe reading by firelight at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. Springfield, IL. | Early American lamp collection at Tudor Place. Washington, DC. |
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Betty lamp (17thC) an early type of oil lamp for fish oils at Henry Whitfield State Museum. Guilford, CT. | Hanging Betty oil lamp in The Oldest House. St Augustine, FL. | Hanging Betty & fat burning lamps at Jabez Howland House. Plymouth, MA. | Betty oil lamp at Edison Birthplace Museum. Milan, OH. |
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Candle holder, bed warmer & wooded shoes in Old French House. Vincennes, IN. | Taper holder at Hoxie House. Sandwich, MA. | Lamps used in shrines (18th-19thC) at Hamburg History Museum. Hamburg, Germany. | Oil lamp with shade at Spanish Governor's Palace. San Antonio, TX. |
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Antique oil lamps at Spanish Governor's Palace. San Antonio, TX. | Ceramic footed cup with tapers at Kellum-Noble House at Sam Houston Park. Houston, TX. | Stoneware oil lamp (c400-600) from Korea at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Victorian painted red glass taper vase at Woodrow Wilson Birthplace. Staunton, VA. |