A unique Roman oil lamp in the form of a theater mask has been discovered in the city of Kojak, the Netherlands. This is the second century CE and is in full and good state.
The lamp is widely decorated with botanical shapes, with a large head dress like an agent leaf, which covers the scalp shell on the forehead of a wide -eyed eye and even a wide -mouth mask. The sides of the face are manufactured in curls and can two small animals have ears. Its nose and heavy -packed suggests that it can be a stair mask. The mouth works for a lamp filling hole. Underneath it, the “neck” (actually the nozzle of the lamp) is erected along a flute border that is tight and then widespread around the weekend.
Influenced by the mask of the Greek theater character, the theater mask architecture, art, cemetery and even oil lamps were also common decorative items on everyday useful items. Lamps with masks are famous in the Roman world, and when the deceased was placed in the tombs, he played a symbolic role in enlightening his path to the underworld. This example is extraordinarily wide, however, with its adornment decoration and detailed relief, which is integrated into the form of a lamp. The more common mask lamps include lamps or actors and masks that are relieved at a lamp discs (circular tops around the filling hole).
It was discovered in his excavation, which has proved to be the largest Roman cemetery in the Northern Brand. The burial ground is just estimated to be estimated at 15 %, and so far more than 85 graves have been detected, many of them are comprised of important goods, including handle jugs, clay plates, glass bottles and jewelry. The red plates are Terra cogelta, alias Samian ware, a type of fine kerosene with an iron -rich mud -rich mud in the cheek. Uncontrolled white utensils were of German production.
Square pits dot the ground, some of these funerals with carbonization’s tail tail stains. Archaeologists found a large number of potentials, proof that when the bodies were burning, the mourners presented the vases and the jugs in the fire. The dishes were exploded and organic offerings were eaten.
The modern city was the Roman settlement of Seyukum in the Kojak Antiquities. The large quantity of kerosene confirms the vessels discovered in the cemetery confirms that the population in the Roman Empire has extensive access to imported consumers from somewhere else.
In this video, the moment and lamp of discovery show itself in a quick complex detail as archaeologists remove the filth.
