One-wick Delphiform Lamp, 1st century BCE - 1st century AD

  • Roman

Clay

  • Overall: 1 3/8 × 3 × 3 1/2 inches (3.5 × 7.6 × 8.9 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase, 1904

72.305

Base inscribed: POP BIT (Pop(ilius) Bit(h)us

discovered near (Luxemburgerstrasse, Cologne, Germany). Prof. W.O. Emery (Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA)

1904, purchased by the City of Detroit (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1973-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist; published by the American Academy in Rome (Rome 1997) p.130. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONES LATINARUM, vol. XV 662h.

possibly Roman, One-wick Delphiform Lamp, 1st century BCE - 1st century AD, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 1904, 72.305.