Ancient bronze oil lamp romans

I would like to know how much can cost the bronze oil lamp 1st century ?
My regards.

 

Are you certain it is genuinely from the first century? How do you know? The antiquities market is filled with fakes; you have to be very careful.

 

so, I did some search on the internet and realized that it is 1st century.

 

Not everything that is in the style of a much earlier time & has the look of great age is what it appears to be. Are you located in or near Serbia?
@Makanudo

 

No I'm in the middle east.

 

If the lamps were genuine there would be a hole in the spout to insert a wick and that hole would go all the way to the area that holds the oil. Your lamps are non-functioning replicas.

 

Another region where there is a huge business in fake antiquities.

I was writing more, but Walter's note makes it unnecessary.

 

There is a hole in it that goes through the area that holds oil look at the picture carefully.

 

Picture of the bottom? I’ve seen hundreds of brass and bronze souvenir items of many different forms, and the finish, patina, and just general appearance of your lamp put it in the same category. If there’s a large museum near you, see if they’ll look at it for you. Some have “free appraisal day” once a week.

 

I see the small hole in the top surface where the human figures are. But there should also be a hole through the spout where the wick would go. From your photographs, the spout looks like it is closed. It should look like this pottery example:

 

the spout is open look carefully in the picture and you will realize that hole.

 

that style lamp looks to have been made in Terracotta.
a quick look & I don't see bronze in your style....
Also many warnings about fakes....

........& many erotic images.....

( but that could be my computer being randy...)...

 

Winas, could we see pictures of the sides and bottom, please?

I see the hole, it is just more at an angle than on the other examples.
I agree, many of these are fake, both in terracotta and bronze.
Given the fact that there is a lot of patination and no areas where it is worn smooth, it could be a fake. Fake 'ancient' artifacts have been made in the Middle East ever since the beginning of tourism.

This is the kind of wear usually seen on Roman bronze oil lamps, you can see it has a smooth, tactile quality, and complex, deep-layered patination:


Yours doesn't look used, just patinated (with a hole). It looks like the patination is only in the top layer of the bronze:

 

JMHO.
the Roman Empire included a good part of the Middle East. it could be genuine.
BUT a bit of calculus (the boring stepbrother of Lucullus...) shows that there were at least one per room present in Roman times.
so - as with overpriced Roman coins offered on internet - not really the great prize. 20 - 50 $ my guess.

 

I've got a couple of these. One bought on Cyprus, doesn't pretend to be anything but a new lookalike. The other was bought in Jordan and is carved stone - came from Petra. The seller took great care to tell me it was new, but had been carved in accordance with ancient tradition.

The only real way of dating terracotta ones is radio carbon, which is a bit OTT. Again, these can be bought inexpensively when the real thing.

 

The one winas posted is bronze.

 

As you can see, I seem to have been relocated somewhere between Basra and Alepo

 

Has the entire state of Serbia been relocated to the Middle East? Did you notice anything? An earthquake maybe? Ah, the joys of travelling....

 

Aaaahhhh,.... its the Teslas secret scripts that we sholud thank for instant human transfer.
Havent you watched star treck?

 

I asked for a photo of the bottom but don’t know whether we’ll get one or not. Perhaps there’s a language barrier?