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Roman Oil Lamp
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08-29-2006, 05:03 PM
Indeed- I'm going to try just letting the oil saturate a lamp at some point and see just how long it takes and just how messy or not it really is.
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08-30-2006, 09:20 PM
The lamp holders can be made or iron, but this one I found in ... the Hull Museum (East Yorkshire) I believe ... is made of clay, and it looks glazed .... :?:

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08-30-2006, 09:40 PM
Thanks for the picture Paul Big Grin Strange- why bother to go to the extra trouble to make a pottery holder that's glazed when they could just as easily glaze the inside of the lamps? Then again it's harder to knock over a larger thing and spill the oil...
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