Metal Lamp

An intact twin of this metal double-spouted lamp appears in Plate XLIV of Volume III in Cesnola's Atlas. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (no. CB 414), this is one of only a few metal double-spouted lamp in Cesnola's collection. Ceramic lamps with double spouts are common across the Mediterranean, especially at Phoenician sites in North Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain. The Semitic Museum's Cesnola collection has over 100 single-spouted ceramic lamps dating from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine era.