Late antique clay lamp with a triumphant Christ. North Africa, 4th - 5th century A.D. Type Hayes II. L 14.5cm, H 5.5cm. Made of light red clay with a light red coating. Cone-shaped handle, ovoid body, rounded snout with firing hole, two filler holes in the mirror. On the mirror the triumphant Christ flanked by angels, below a lion. The shoulder decorated with alternating Christograms and cross motifs in double circles. Heavily rubbed, intact. The scene looks like an illustration of Psalm 90:13: You will walk over serpent and basilisk, crush the lion and the dragon. Christ is depicted standing with a nimbus, stabbing a serpent writhing at his feet with a staff cross. Below him is a lion facing left, with a dragon and a monstrous serpent, a basilisk, to his left. Christ is flanked by acclaiming Victories/angels. Models for this depiction can be found on solidi of Valentinian III (e.g. RIC X, 2010, minted in Ravenna 426/430 AD). The scene on our lamp would thus be the illustration of a biblical passage and a Christianized version of the coin image (see M. Löx, Christus, Apostel und Co. in: M. Flecker (ed.), Zwischen Dionysos und Christus. Bild und Tafelgeschirr im römischen Nordafrika, 2022. pp. 141-169, esp. 159). Provenance: From the West German private collection H.H., acquired before 1980 at the Dortmund antique market.