Bronze Lamp-stand Top

Bronze Lamp-stand Top

Description:

Upper part of the top of a bronze lamp-stand or incense burning stand; shallow socket with incised parallel lines on top and bottom from which rise three elongated voluted stems joined by a ring.


Dimensions: Diameter: 4.40 centimetres ring ; Diameter: 3.20 centimetres socket ; Height: 16 centimetres whole ; Width: 10.10 centimetres whole


Object Type: lamp-stand; incense-burner


Techniques: cast; incised

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

700 - 480 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1896,0201.306