Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp, Classical Cypriot — Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp, Classical Cypriot, c. 399–300 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.1889.Open Access by the MET

Classical

Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Wheel-made with edge folded in to form a narrow wick rest; narrow rim, with rounded lip; broad, shallow, open body; undefined, convex base. Intact, but one crack on right side of nozzle, and small chip in rim at back. Overall: 1 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. (3.5 x 11.1 cm)

Classification

Object type: Lamp
Shape: Special and ritual vesselsLamp
Material: Clay
Period: Iron AgeCypro-ClassicalCypro-Classical II
Date: 399 - 300 BC
Place of production: probablyCyprus

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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.1006, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2506, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2020. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracotta Oil Lamps. no. 6, p. 38, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.1889, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 2506

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