Lamp

Oil is burned from a saturated wick.

Reported to have been found in a tomb near Carthage. Roman form but made and used in North Africa.

Lighting device.

One wick lamp made of unpainted orange clay with a circular body as viewed from the top, two protruding points either side of a channel that leads to the rounded nozzle. There is a vertical tapering handle opposite the nozzle. The lamp is decorated along the top of the shoulder with an impressed band consisting of a series of concentric circles separated by dividing lines. Top surface's central field or discus is concave and encircled by a rim extending around the wick hole with two filling holes. The discus is impressed with a large bowl-like vessel or kantharos set between two oil holes.