Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp
Description: | 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) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 399 - 300 BC |
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. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.1889 |