Mould-made oil-lamp. Frog type decoration. The design is a degradation of the frog type lamp design. Some soot stains around the wick-hole. 

Label stuck to the back: "Romo Egyptian Toad lamp 2nd+3rd C. A.D. Lawrence Collection".


Rev. Thomas Ranger Lawrence (1847-1902) was Chaplain of Ramleh, and of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Institute, Alexandria, Egypt. He formed a collection of antiquities that was sold on 4 July 1905 by Mr. J. C. Stevens, London, and a sales catalogue was published: 'Collection of Antiquities of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and later periods by the late Rev. T. Ranger Lawrence', which is avaialble online on the archive.org website.

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Mould-made oil-lamp. Frog type decoration. The design is a degradation of the frog type lamp design. Some soot stains around the wick-hole. Label stuck to the back: "Romo Egyptian Toad lamp 2nd+3rd C. A.D. Lawrence Collection". Rev. Thomas Ranger Lawrence (1847-1902) was Chaplain of Ramleh, and of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Institute, Alexandria, Egypt. He formed a collection of antiquities that was sold on 4 July 1905 by Mr. J. C. Stevens, London, and a sales catalogue was published: 'Collection of Antiquities of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and later periods by the late Rev. T. Ranger Lawrence', which is avaialble online on the archive.org website.

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