
Late Bronze Age I
Plain White Wick Lamp
Pottery lamp; Plain White Wheel-made ware; wheel-made; four cardinally placed wick-rests, formed by folding in the sides of a shallow round-based bowl with an upright rim; unslipped; surface abraded, fabric pale yellow. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.20 centimetres; Height: 4.80 centimetres Object Type: lamp Ware: Plain White Wheel-made Ware Techniques: wheel-made
Classification
- Object type
- Lamp
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1650 - 1200 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Enkomi
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1897,0401.1283 (“lamp”)From Enkomi, BM Tomb 91
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