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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nose (nasus), through whichthe wick was pulled, and the handle (ansa). The materialcommonly used was terra-cotta, yellow, brownish red, or scarletin colour, frequently glazed over with silicate. The simplest 462 LAMPS. forms of the lamp are specified in Fig. 460, d, e, I, m. All theselamps have only owe opening for the wick (monomyxos, monolychnis),others (b, c, k) have two such openings (dimyxi, trimyxi, poly myxi).Birch ( History of Ancient Pottery/ vol. ii., pp. 274 and 275)gives earthenware lamps with seven, and even twelve, nasi fromoriginals in the British Museum. The Royal Antiquarium inBerlin also possesses two earthenware lamps with twelve nasi. Thedisks and handles of many of these lamps are adorned with grace-ful bas-reliefs, representing mythological events, animals, domesticlife, or battles, fights of gladiators, flowers, garlands, &c, fre-quently original in composition. Fig. 460, d, shows Apollo, / aSoman warrior standing by a battering-ram, m two soldiers fighting.
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ha cFig. 461. Of particular interest is Fig. 460, e, representing an earthenwarelamp, which, according to its inscription, was intended for a NewYears present (strence)* The device on the shield of the Goddessof Victory reads: ANNO NOVO FAVSTVM FELIX TIBI. A number of lamps show on their bases inscriptions, eitherincised or in relief, indicative of the name of the potter, theowner, or the reigning emperor, &c.; sometimes we also meet withtrade marks affixed to the lamps. * Several lamps, intended as new years gifts, such as were habitually exchangedby friends amongst the Romans, are in the R. Antiquarium of Berlin. CANDELABRA. 463 The forms of the lamps in Fig. 460, b, i, are of an unusualkind. The former shows a sacellum with the enthroned figure ofPluto ; the latter has the semblance of a sandalled foot. Greaterelegance and variety are displayed in the bronze lamps frequentlyfound in our museums (Fig. 460, a, f) g, h, k). Herculaneumand Pompeii have yielded a number ofbeautiful

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