Bronze Lamp-stand Top

Bronze Lamp-stand Top

Description:

Upper part of the top of a bronze lamp-stand: inverted calyx with a disc above, from which rise three elongated leaves joined by a ring. The stem within the calyx is broken; it may have fitted directly onto the octagonal stem of the lower part, or there may have been an additional calyx.


Dimensions: Height: 14.80 centimetres; Width: 13.60 centimetres


Object Type: lamp-stand


Techniques: cast

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

700 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.113