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Keywords: Byzantine - Oil Lamp with a Cross - Walters 5455.jpg Lamps filled with scented oil were used throughout the Mediterranean region Intended for use in the home the lamp could rest on a table be suspended by chains or be fitted onto a spiked pricket lampstand On this example a cross is incorporated into the center of the leaf-shaped handle century 5 6 Late Antique bronze cm 14 6 22 5 9 accession number 54 55 34019 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1924 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine art in Egypt
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