Lucius Eros lived during the reigns of emperors Augustus and Tiberius during the 1st century A.D. in an Iberian-Roman town called Elo, in what is now the municipality of Elda in Alicante (Valencia region). He was a potter and signed each of his ceramic oil lamps, engraving his name on the mold he used to make them. Now, archaeologists have restored one of these artifacts, found in pieces, and have declared it to be the largest of its kind from the Roman period.
Accommodating 32 points of light and reaching half a meter in diameter, it was hung from the ceilings of large buildings. In addition to the chandelier-style oil lamp, which is now on display at the Elda Museum, four molds for other types of lamps have been recovered from the Iberian-Roman archeological site of Elo-Monastil, where Lucius had his workshop and three kilns.
