Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with a Rhinoceros Image (Illustration)

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published on 23 January 2018

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Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp with a Rhinoceros Image — This terracotta oil lamp was produced on Cyprus during the first half of the 1st Century CE. The discus has an engraved image of a rhinoceros tossing a large cat with its horn.
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by Unknown. Uploaded by Arienne King, published on 23 January 2018 under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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