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Mould-made pottery lamp with a circular body, a rounded shoulder, and a short flat-topped semicircular nozzle, set into the shoulder and defined by a lateral groove. At the rear is a pierced handle, grooved along the upper edge. The discus is surrounded by a circular groove; a short grooved channel cuts through this from the discus to the nozzle. On the discus is a scorpion, its chelae embracing the filling-hole. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name C.OPPI.RES. Covered with a worn finger-marked orange-red to brown slip.
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