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Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp, Classical Cypriot
Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp, Classical Cypriot, c. 500–400 BC. British Museum, 1980,1001.188.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Classical

Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp

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

Classification

Object type
Lamp
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsLamp
Material
Clay
Date
500 - 400 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

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

Identifiers

Accession no.
1980,1001.188, British Museum · Museum record

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