Tools and EquipmentByzantine?1st millennium CE
Wick Holder
1st Millennium
Dimensions
8 x 2.5 x 0.6 cm (3 1/8 x 1 x 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Excavated from Antioch, sector 13-R (no. c493-U774) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.
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