Roman Late Byzantine to Early Islamic Bronze Oil Lamp-Filler

Roman Late Byzantine to Early Islamic Bronze Oil Lamp-Filler, ca. 1000 AD. This diminutive bowl-shaped lamp-filler is modeled with an elongated spout with channel and three small side projections. Three small knobs on the base. Lamps of this type are variously identified as lamp-fillers, and as lamps, being arranged in polycandelions. Brown patina. See "Qedem, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, Ancient Lamps in the Scgloessinger Collection," by Rosenthal & Sivan 1978, #697. Ex Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. BBS 171, 27 October 2010, lot 596. Wieclaw Collection. L. 3" (7.6 cm)..