Lighting DevicesCypriot6th-3rd century BCE

Lamp

600-200 BCE

Description

Wheel-made lamp of open shape. Broad, flat dish shape. Flat base with some string marks. Underside walls flare outwards to create a shallow reservoir. Broad rim with narrow ridge defining rim from reservoir. Pinched nozzle. Orange-buff fabric with with dark sandy inclusions. Chalky yellowish slip. Significant charring at nozzle.

Classification

Lighting Devices

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Cypriot

Period

Archaic period to Hellenistic

Century

6th-3rd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

3 x 13.4 x 13.7 cm (1 3/16 x 5 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).