The standard of lighting was the oil lamp
(Greek lampas "torch", "lamp") in open bowl form with bulging spout of clay or metal for the wick from Werg, rush marrow, candlesticks. Since about 610 B.C. the muzzle form appears. The lamp belonged to the mass-produced articles, so that already in the 5th century BC lamp makers and lamp vendors could be separate professions. Fuel was castor oil and olive press residues.
On this oil lamp you see two tigers - a customer said they were lions - depicted, palmettes are attached as decorative ornaments.
National Archaeological Museum Athens; replica original size 12 x 7.5 cm, height 5.5 cm.
