Title

Lamp in the form of a human foot, Roman, mid-2nd century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Lamp in the form of a human foot, Roman, mid-2nd century. Terracotta oil lamp in the shape of a foot complete with leather sandal. The wick would have burnt in the hole in the big toe; the smole hole in the ankle would have been used to refill the lamp with olive oil. It was found at Borough High Street, Southwark, during the digging of London's Jubilee Line extension.
Museum of London

Date

140th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A82_479

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (1,8Mb) / 17,5in x 11,1in / 5245 x 3327 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy footwear shoes country Rome hole body clothes feet foot color colour lighting dress Roman terracotta lamp location ceramics century toe toes shoe sandal sandals artefact artifact oil lamp Museum of London 2nd century Roman Britain the body object Unknown ceramic ceramic object