Lighting DevicesHellenistic2nd century BCE

Lamp

2nd century BCE

Classification

Lighting Devices

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Hellenistic

Period

Hellenistic period

Century

2nd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

2.7 x 5.5 x 8.6 cm (1 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

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

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