Lighting DevicesGreek6th-5th century BCE

Lamp

550-450 BCE

Description

Small, wheelmade lamp with relatively shallow body, flaring walls, angular shoulder, and flat, narrow rim. Broad filling hole. Small, rounded, thickly bridged nozzle retains charring at tip, around nozzle hole, and at underside. Small, flat base with string marks. Darkish orange-tan fabric, very heavily weathered and having flaked apart in layers: Exterior surface appears cork-like. Very slight traces of a dark orange-brown slip remain.

Classification

Lighting Devices

Technique

Wheel-made

Medium

terracotta

Culture

Greek

Period

Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical

Century

6th-5th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

1.95 x 6.1 x 4.8 cm (3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Information sheet in object file reads: "From the Estate of Theodore Dwight through Miss Harriet S. Amory, 1920", but lists the provenance as unknown.