Lighting DevicesByzantine5th-7th century

Lamp with Cross-shaped Handle Guard

5th-7th century

Classification

Lighting Devices

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Mixed copper alloy

Culture

Byzantine

Period

Byzantine period, Early

Century

5th-7th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

10.3 x 5.2 x 15 cm (4 1/16 x 2 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Brought from Karpathos, Dodecanese. Mrs. Arthur Kingsley Porter (Lucy Bryant Wallace), Cambridge, MA, (by 1957) gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1957.

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