Oil Lamp with Figure of Eros

Description Roman artifacts, such as this simple, inexpensive, terracotta oil lamp, often turned up in excavations. They were even found in the Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium), through which ran the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.

Provenance Mrs. G. Ashton Sutherland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, February 8, 1972, by gift.

Credit Gift of Mrs. G. Ashton Sutherland, 1972