Hand-Made Bull Lamp Stand

Hand-Made Bull Lamp Stand

Description:

Hand-made pottery figure of a bull, originally supporting four wheel-made lamps of which only one survives.


Dimensions: Height: 23.80 centimetres; Length: 27 centimetres


Object Type: lamp


Techniques: handmade; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 500 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus)

Accession Number:

1891,0806.36