Micaceous Green Lamp - image 1

Classical

Micaceous Green Lamp

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

Date

500 - 400 BC

Accession No.

1980,1001.191

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Salamis (Cyprus) (?)
  • Gastria (?)
  • Kourion (?)