Cream Saucer Lamp - image 1

Archaic II

Cream Saucer Lamp

Wheel-made open pottery lamp in the form of a shallow dish with a flat rim, the edges folded in at two places to form a wick-rest. Cream-coloured slip. Buff clay. Dimensions: Height: 3.20 centimetres; Length: 12.50 centimetres; Thickness: 0.90 centimetres rim ; Width: 12.20 centimetres Object Type: saucer lamp Techniques: wheel-made

Date

550 - 475 BC

Accession No.

null

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Naukratis (?)
  • Tell Dafana (?)