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A pair of dolphins use their tails to support the handle’s rectangular plaque. Their heads would have been attached to a now-lost base.

Round flat hanging lamps, or polycandela, were lit by oil-filled glass vessels hung from the round holes in…

Small earthenware lamps, made from double molds, were the most commonly used source of light in North Africa during the early Byzantine period. A wick produced from plant fiber or linen fabric was placed in a reservoir filled with oil, generally…

Image from Victor Langlois, "Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes du Taurus." Langlois was a French historian, archaeologist, and numismatist, who is particularly known for his work on Armenia. He held a great interest in the relationship…

Excavated in Antioch in a fragmentary state and restored, this lampstand or candlestick rests upon three feet, which support a flaring base of petal-shaped aprons. Above, a baluster topped with a disk ends with a four-sided spike known as a pricket.…

Rim -sherd from the border of an African Red Slip Ware pottery lanx (large rectangular dish), showing the life of Achilles. Women spinning thread and musician (piper).

The Vatican Vergil, which contains fragments of Vergil’s Aeneid and Georgics, is one of three surviving illustrated manuscripts of classical literature along with the Vergilius Romanus and the Ambrosian Iliad. Today, the Vatican Vergil consists of 76…