Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Ancient Egyptian "Frog" Pottery Oil Lamp

Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Ancient Egyptian "Frog" Pottery Oil Lamp

The pottery oil lamp is a molded product of the ancient Egyptian "frog" type, with a circular oil storage tank, a hole in the center of the top, and concentric ring decorations around it. The top of the oil storage tank is decorated with a concave "frog and corn" pattern, and the base has a concave ring around the raised pottery mark. The nozzle extends from the main body of the oil lamp and also has a concave decoration. Burning spots with traces of use left on them. The oil lamp is made of brown Nile silt with a gray core inside. It can be traced back to the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. From the Fayum region. Now part of the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge