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Making a Mouldmade Lamp Key


Making the mould itself:

a) The patrix

b) Making the mould in two halves

c) Trimming the mould to shape



Using the mould to make a lamp:

d) Lining up the mould halves with clay already pressed inside to make a lamp

e) Opening the mould to reveal the lamp formed inside
From Karin Goethert, Römische Lampen und Leuchter, Auswahlkatalog des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier, Trier, 1997.
 

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