Terracotta handled saucer-shaped oil lamp - image 1

Classical

Terracotta handled saucer-shaped oil lamp

Wheel-made with edge folded in to form two wick rests; thick, flaring rim, with beveled lip; shallow, sloping, open body; between nozzles, a solid handle, tapering slightly and upturned at rounded end; undefined, convex base. Intact. Overall: 2 x 11 1/8 in. (5.1 x 28.3 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1890

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. CXXXVIII.1002, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2521, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Oziol, Thérèse. 1977. "Les lampes du Museé de Chypre." Salamine de Chypre, 7: no. 38, p. 26, pls, 3, 54.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2020. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracotta Oil Lamps. no. 18, pp. 46-47, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.