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Figure 6 is the typical Koman lamp closed over and having a slight 

 beak (Cat. No. 175584, Asia Minor, A. A. Azeez). 



The development of the beak also gives an interesting series lead- 

 ing almost to tlie spout forms which were in use up to the age of 

 invention. In Plate 42a, Figure 7, is a specimen said to have been 

 found at Thebes, Egypt, and having a rudimentary beak. (Cat. 

 No. 150436, Minor Kellogg.) The next specimen, Figure 6, from 

 Tyre, shows further development (Cat. No. 130910, M. F. Savage). 

 The spout is more marked in Figure 5 (Cat. No. 175558, Asia Minor, 

 A. A. Azeez), and in Figure 4 (Cat. No. 167625, Italy, G. Brown 

 Goode. Figure 3 is an Italian form. (Cat. No. 167629, same 

 donor.) Figure 2 is from Halicarnassus, Greece (Cat. No. 73162, 

 M. A. Carindouas), while Figure 1 is Roman and shows the extreme 

 of spout development (Cat. No. 167632, G. Brown Goode.) 



The handle series in Plate 42(Z has Figures 8 and 9, without 

 handles, from Egypt and Italy, the former from Dr. George W. 

 Sampson and the latter from M. A. Carindouas. A pinched-up 

 handle, perforated (fig. 10), is from Italy, collected by G. Brown 

 Goode (Cat. No. 167642). The fourth specimen (fig. 11) has a 

 stub handle pierced laterally and is from Italy by the same col- 

 lector. The fifth specimen (fig. 12), from Coos, Greece, has a 

 better developed handle. Figure 13 has a small ring handle in 

 which the finger can hardly be inserted (Cat. No. 167618, Italy, 

 G. Brown Goode). A lamp from Pergamos, Greece (fig. 14), 

 displays an effective handle (Cat. No. 73161, M. A. Carindouas). 

 No. 15 is also furnished with the extreme tj'^pe of ring handle (Cat. 

 No. 167650, Italy, G. Brown Goode). The series below, Plate 42a 

 exhibits another variety of handle generally crescentic and sometimes 

 floriated. The first lamp (fig. 16) is from Carpathos, Greece, Mr. 

 Carindouas; the second (fig. 17) in bronze, from Italy, G. Brown 

 Goode; the third (fig. 18) in pottery, also from Italy, by the same 

 collector; and the fourth (fig. 19), also of bronze, from Italy, by 

 M. F. Savage (Cat. Nos. 73165, 167656, 167628, 175263). 



Sometimes Roman lamps were given a foot, never much elevated. 

 The series here (pi. 426, first row) displays a crude lamp from 

 Egypt, Minor Kellogg ; a well-made lamp with low foot from Baiae, 

 Italy, Captain Chauncey; a smaller specimen from Italy, M. F. 

 Savage; a neat globular lamp from Greece, William Green; and a 

 lamp with bell-shape foot raising it 2.3 inches, Italy, G. Brown 

 Goode (Cat. Nos. 130436, 1355, 17268, 128364, 167646). The ancients 

 made lamps with more than one burner. These are favorite subjects 

 of falsifiers, whose forgeries are common in the more elaborate types 

 of lamps. Beginning to the right of Plate 427;, third row, a one- 

 burner Roman lamp decorated in relief is shown. The next specimen 

 is a fine example of a two-burner lamp in the best style of art. Two- 



