Classical
Terracotta saucer-shaped oil lamp
Open, wheel-made. Broad, horizontal rim, pinched into a narrow, projecting nozzle, and an uneven, flat base, sloping downward at front below nozzle. Intact, but some surface flaking on interior. Length: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm) Height: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Lamp
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Classical
- Date
- 499 - 400 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Accession No.
74.51.1989
Collection
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.1005, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2513, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2020. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracotta Oil Lamps. no. 4, pp. 36-37, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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