4th century AD. A red brown moulded terracotta lamp with solid lug handle, oval elongated body, shoulder frame with circular stamps, alternating between flower-pattern and spiral-pattern, ridge encircling the discus, continuing onto the long nozzle to form broad channel, raised basal ring connected to handle; the base with two concentric circles; discus iconography of a palm-tree. See Leibundgut, A., Die Römischen Lampen in der Schweiz: Eine kultur- und handelsgeschichtliche Studie, Bern, 1977, pl. XXXVIII; Bussière J., Lindros Wohl B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, pp.351ff. 148 grams, 13cm (5"). From the collection of Arno Jumpertz, Leverkusen, Germany, 1924-1984; much of the collection was exhibited at Neus museum, in 1985; accompanied by an old detailed, illustrated collector's information card, collection number 402. This lamp is of Atlante type X; Hayes type II. The so-called Christian lamps in Terra Sigillata Africana (TSA) have been classified by Hayes into two major types, I and II. He has distinguished two classes in his type II, according to geographic place of manufacture or origin. One of the symbols used for such lamps was the Christian Tree of Life, located in the Garden of Eden according to Christian mythology.