Terracotta lamp from Anatolia with curled-up sleeping dog in high-relief (1st-4th c. CE) (all images courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and all featured in ‘Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul ...

Ancient oil-lamp workshop sheds light on Roman-era Jews and Christians Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps – two bearing symbols of the menorah – and stone lamp molds for their production, were found along ...

This terracotta lamp decorated with two fishes and a horse would have been used by the ancient Romans for artificial light; it would have been fuelled by olive oil and could easily be carried from ...