Hellenistic Bronze Oil Lamp

3rd century BC. A bronze lamp with rounded body and long flat-topped nozzle, flaring to a rounded tip, circular wick-hole, moulded filling hole rim, raised circular basal ring. See similar specimen in Bailey, D. M., A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum IV, London, 1996, no.Q3542, pl.3. 117 grams, 10.2cm (4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market; previously in a German collection collection formed since 1970. Hellenistic bronze lamps exhibit a great variety of shapes and details, although many have rounded bodies and long nozzles in common. These lamps were characteristic of the Western Mediterranean, and although their production style was Greek in origin, they were typical of the Late Roman Consular Age. [No Reserve]
Condition Report: Fine condition, small hole to nozzel.