Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Description:

Wheel-made with edge folded in to form a narrow wick rest; horizontal rim, with rounded lip; broad, shallow, open body; undefined, flat base.



Complete, except for one chip in left edge of rim and crack down front of nozzle. Sooting around nozzle.


H.: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), L.: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

399 - 300 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2514, p. 365, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2020. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracotta Oil Lamps. no. 1, p. 35, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1819