Lighting DevicesGreek5th century BCE

Lamp

500-400 BCE

Description

Complete wheelmade lamp with shallow body and incurving walls. Raised rim slopes downward to filling hole. Short, rounded, thickly bridged nozzle, slightly upturned. No delineated base. Concavity at underside creates convexity at floor of oil chamber that terminates in a low, conical point. Orange-buff, well-levigated fabric. Glossy black slip on upper side of lamp and in circle on oil chamber floor. Dipped nozzle. Self- or unslipped underside. Slight chipping of black slip.

Classification

Lighting Devices

Technique

Wheel-made

Medium

terracotta

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period

Century

5th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

2.2 x 9.7 x 8.1 cm (7/8 x 3 13/16 x 3 3/16 in.)

Provenance

From Olynthus. Included in excavation publication: either a) Olynthus 5, 277, pl. 199.90; or Olynthus 2, 137, fig. 301: 34. Object file contains references to both.