Oil lamps were extremely popular household items that were used throughout many ancient civilizations and in Rome they found their apex in decoration. Extremely widespread, oil lamps had to be filled with oil and a wick in order to work and this type of tool would have enabled the user to get the burned bits of the wicks out of the lamp and to scrape off oily sediments.
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