This four-foot pine rods is carved with interleaving spiral patterns, with a tiny model brass lamp on one end and an ovoid point on the other. The rod creates a light source when the ovoid is touched to an item of glass; the source emanates light equivalent to torchlight, and will persist within the glass until cancelled by touching the light again with the rod, or the next Sun event.
The effect is specifically designed, when touched to a sphere of glass, to create a source of light at the center of the sphere. It may light both Lanternae Vitreae and Lampadae Vitreae.
Lanternae Vitreae (glass lanterns) are small wooden lanterns with linen side panels, each holding a small glass sphere inside.
Lampadae Vitreae (glass lamps) are spheres of glass spaced along the walls in sconces.
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