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  SHORT DESCRIPTION: African X-shaped oil-lamp pertinent to the Atlas. The disk is decorated with the Crismòn, a Jesus Christ’s symbol. A decoration with some lozenges and concentric circles on the shoulder

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Handle with a ring form and a hook positioned on the body. It is decorated with four couples of incisive parallel segments. There are four holes on the inner disk. A foot with the shape of a ring.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Little cup with a truncated-cone shaped basin and a concave striped rim

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Fragment of the rim and of the little cup’s basin. The upper striped rim is decorated with some little wheels

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Bottom’s fragment of an African Samian bowl, decorated with some palmettes stamped in a radial position on the inner surface. Among the palmettes there are two printed little roses.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Actaeon is represented on the disk in a heroic nudity, with fluttering drapery on his left forearm and with a quiver and a spear in his right hand; he is attacked by a dog in the right thigh.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Sileno’s bearded head on the left, with horse ears and a crown made of leaves and berries

SHORT DESCRIPTION: It is a cylindrical object whose base was formed by a circular web obtained in this case from the goat-skin’s tanning, while the height, called “arvula”, was made of wood to obtain the circular shape treated with the fire’s flame in order to curve and soften it.