Lighting DevicesGreek6th-5th century BCE
Miniature Lamp
525-400 BCE
Description
Wheelmade lamp with relatively deep body, incurving walls, flat rim, and broad filling hole. Medium-sized, bridged, round nozzle at rim level. Small amount of charring visible around nozzle hole and edge of rim adjacent to nozzle. Low, flat base with string marks. Tool marks from finishing process visible on much of upper body. Buff-orange fabric with pale accretion over much of body. Heavily worn. Either self- or unslipped.
Dimensions
2.9 x 7 x 5.8 cm (1 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Information sheet in object file reads: "Received R. C. Winthrop 1869."
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