Lamp ca. 3rd-7th century A.D. Sasanian Oil lamps were a common way to provide light in the ancient world. The body of the lamp would be filled with oil and a wick would extend out. This shoe-shaped example would have had the wick coming out the tip’ of the shoe. Although its tip is broken, the blackened area of the shoe gives a clear indication of how the lamp would have been used. The lamp was excavated from a house at the site of Ma’aridh II in the Ctesiphon area. The city of Ctesiphon was located on the east bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles (32 km) south of modern Baghdad in Iraq. It flourished for more than 800 years as the capital of the Parthians and the Sasanians, the last two dynasties to rule the ancient Near East before the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Systematic excavations in the Ctesiphon area were undertaken by an expedition in 1928-29 sponsored by the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft). The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Staatliche

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Lamp ca. 3rd-7th century A.D. Sasanian Oil lamps were a common way to provide light in the ancient world. The body of the lamp would be filled with oil and a wick would extend out. This shoe-shaped example would have had the wick coming out the tip’ of the shoe. Although its tip is broken, the blackened area of the shoe gives a clear indication of how the lamp would have been used. The lamp was excavated from a house at the site of Ma’aridh II in the Ctesiphon area. The city of Ctesiphon was located on the east bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles (32 km) south of modern Baghdad in Iraq. It flourished for more than 800 years as the capital of the Parthians and the Sasanians, the last two dynasties to rule the ancient Near East before the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Systematic excavations in the Ctesiphon area were undertaken by an expedition in 1928-29 sponsored by the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft). The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Staatliche

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