A Roman Jar, ancient Pottery. 63 BC. gold Pottery lamps were used as

Pottery lamps were used as a source of light by all Romans

5 inches x 8

made in Syria

although in the middle of the 2nd century BC it was recalibrated so that it was now worth sixteen assēs or four sēstertiī

The large size and shape suggest it was once contained in an iconostasis in a small private chapel or shrine

A Roman Jar, ancient Pottery. 63 BC. gold Pottery lamps were used asSize: height= 17, diameter= 6. 5, width= 13 cm. height= 6. 6, diameter= 2. 5, width= 5 inch. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used for transporting and storing liquids and other products in this case probably mostly Spanish olive oil, which was landed