Each of these two lamps features a dancing maenad holding a tambourine with one hand and striking it with the other.
Provenance: ?
Substance: terracotta.
Diameter: 8 cm.
Era: 1st century (CE?).
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.
Collection: National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-ʾālāt al-musīqīyyā al-qadīmā wa mašāhid al-mūsīqīyyīin ʿala ʾāṯārinā al-fannīyyā. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 1972 (pp. 81-121).

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