Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp

Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp

Description:

Pottery open lamp; wheelmade saucer-shaped disc of clay with quadrants pinched in to form a nozzle; deep, with a carinated body and narrow; burnt at the edge of the wick rest; string marks under the base; whitish-buff clay.


Dimensions: Length: 12.50 centimetres; Width: 13 centimetres


Object Type: lamp


Techniques: wheel-made; pinched

Period:

Classical

Date:

500 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus) (?)

Gastria (?)

Kourion (?)

Accession Number:

1980,1001.188