Micaceous Green Lamp

Micaceous Green Lamp

Description:

Pottery open lamp; wheelmade plate with narrow, flat rim with two quadrants pinched in form a nozzle; no base, underside hand-fettled; green-buff clay, very micaceous; traces of us on the wick rest.


Dimensions: Length: 14.90 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres


Object Type: lamp


Techniques: wheel-made

Period:

Classical

Date:

500 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus) (?)

Gastria (?)

Kourion (?)

Accession Number:

1980,1001.191