Lighting DevicesGreek4th century BCE
Lamp
400-300 BCE
Description
Wheelmade lamp with deep body and slightly incurving walls which are squared at join with rim. Broad, convex rim slopes down towards filling hole. Medium-sized filling hole. Long, narrow, flat-topped nozzle rounded at end. Broad strap handle, with incised ridge just below upper edge, set at slight angle above the horizontal. Low, concave base. Light orange fabric with semi-lustrous black slip. Base unslipped. Gray accretion in patches on body.
Dimensions
4.15 x 11.6 x 6.9 cm (1 5/8 x 4 9/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Information sheet in object file reads: "Received from Amer. Antiq. Soc., Worcester, MA".
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