Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp, Classical Cypriot
Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp, Classical Cypriot, c. 399–300 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.1814.Open Access by the MET

Classical

Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Wheel-made with edge pinched in to form a narrow wick rest; broad rim with outer rounded lip; open body slanting down to front, with a central tubular projection with flaring mouth; flaring base ring with rough, irregular interior surface; concave, rough base, with hole pierced through from tubular projection, with jagged edge. Complete, but some ships to edge at front. The base made with an uneven, hand-worked coil. 1 9/16 × 5 7/16 × 5 1/4 in. (3.9 × 13.9 × 13.4 cm)

Classification

Object type
Lamp
Material
Clay
Date
399 - 300 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Accession No.

74.51.1814

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

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