Roman Oil Lamp 120 To 200 Ad Roman Antiquities

Oil lamp with a standard round spout of the Bussière D II type. The anchor point of the spout on the lamp headband is marked by an incised horizontal line, flanked by two points. The disc is delimited by concentric incisions and presents in thick relief a small grape harvester holding a bunch of grapes, (perhaps the young god Bacchus), the handle is hollowed out. It is signed on the reverse: CIVNDRAC - IVNDRACO - Caius Junius Draco, active between 120 and 200 AD Orange and ochre terracotta, very slight wear of time, good general condition of conservation, see photos. Mediterranean Basin, Roman period 120 to 200 AD Dimensions: 11 X 7 cm Provenance: former collection of an archaeology expert, Paris, constituted in the 1970s/80s Sold with certificate of authenticity from the expert Serge Reynes and invoice from the Ocarina Gallery Guarantee of origin and period Bibliography: C IVNDRAC is read C. Junius Draci, 82 times, with the same general distribution as the C.IVN ALEX mark (Carthage, Sidi Daoud, Souk el Abiod, Bir bou Rekba, Sousse, El Djem [20], Sfax and Thina [35], Salakta, Sidi el Hani, Mahdia, Hadjeb-el-Aïoun, Philippeville, Cherchell, Lemta, Ras Dimas, Bizerte, Constantine, Djerba). There is also a predominance of the same African subjects here. In addition, the lamps have a great resemblance in workmanship, and many of the subjects they offer are common to them. The distribution outside Africa, according to the Corpus, frequent in Rome, in lower Italy and in Sardinia, is close to that of the brand C.IVN ALEX. Finally, it should be noted that these two Junii have the same first name. It must therefore probably be two workshops of the same factory operated or directed by two of the members or the freedmen of the same family. ( Lamp Factories in Ancient Africa, Dr L. Carton, 1916 )
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