Turned-out Rim Lamp

Turned-out Rim Lamp

Description:

Wheel-made open pottery lamp with a broad turned-out rim; the edges are folded in to form a narrow wick-rest; made of fairly fine buff-white clay.


Dimensions: Length: 12.50 centimetres; Width: 10.70 centimetres


Object Type: lamp


Techniques: wheel-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

550 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1880,0710.101