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where a saucer lamp in all probability preceded the Roman lamp. 

 This is in accord with the theory of the prehistoric migration of 

 eastern Asiatics from Mesopotamia, supported by numerous simi- 

 larities brought forward by Terrien Delacouperie and other students. 

 In various older horizons in Cyprus, Asia Minor, and Carthage, in 

 North Africa, are found lamps in which a wick channel has been 

 formed by pinching up the side of a small clay saucer. (PL 42.) 

 This is the type of pottery lamp current in North Africa at present. 

 Plate 51, Figure 5 shows a green glazed Moroccan pottery lamp with 

 pinched-up reservoir mounted on a column rising from a saucer base 

 and having a curved handle reaching from the reservoir to the base. 

 This lamp was collected in Morocco by Dr. Talcott Williams, (12,2 

 inches (31 cm.) high). On the same plate, Figure 6 is an ancient 

 earthenware pinched up saucer lamp from Syria. (Cat. No, 95874; 

 Tiffany «S; Co.; 3 inches (8 cm.) diameter.) A lamp of faience 

 with two wick grooves show^s North African influence. (PI, 51, 

 fig, 7, Cat. No. 150435, Naples, Italy; Mrs. E, S. Brinton; 9.8 inches 

 (25 cm.) high.) A glazed pottery lamp in form of a two-faced 

 woman bearing the two spout closed-in reservoir on the head is from 

 Holland. (PI. 51, fig, 4, Cat, No, 175711; M. F. Savage; 12,2 inches 

 (31 cm.) high.) A splendid specimen of Moorish green glaze pot- 

 tery lamp has the characteristic reservoir with column and handle 

 rising from the center of a basin having small lamps, candle sockets, 

 and modeled ornaments around the border, the whole mounted on a 

 sturdy stem with base. (PL 51, fig, 3, Cat, No, 168308, Morocco; 

 W. H, Chandlee; 29 inches (73.5 cm.) high,) An iron lamp, four 

 pointed and with spike for sticking in a base, also from Morocco, 

 shows the open wick groove or fold as in the pottery lamps, (PL 

 52, fig. 4, Cat, No, (57, Williams); Talcott Williams; 17,4 inches 

 (44 cm,) long,) A cast brass standing lamp with three wick channels 

 comes from the Philippines, The circle of the bowd is continued as 

 a slender bridge across the wick channel, (PL 54, fig. 7 Cat. No. 

 232816, Moro, Cotas, Mindanao; Maj, E, A. Mearns; 11.8 inches (30 

 cm.) high.) This lamp is evidently an inheritance of the Moham- 

 medan culture of the Moro. A well designed but crudely worked 

 mosque lamp of brass shows the simple installation of the wick. The 

 reservoir at the apex of the column has cut in it six incisions, the 

 metal being bent out to serve as a channel for the wick. (PL 51, 

 fig. 1, Cat, No, 176519, Near East ; Van Gasbeek and Arkell ; 35,4 

 inches (90 cm.) high,) A hanging lamp of brass has the reservoir 

 beaten up to form seven angles, in which the wick is laid. This is an 

 advance on the simpler wick channel lamps which will be seen from 

 the specimens figured having only one wick. (PL 51, fig, 2, Cat. No, 

 205549, Tangier, Morocco; donor unknown; 35.4 inches (89 cm.) 

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