Saucer-shaped Pottery Lamp - image 1

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

Date

500 - 400 BC

Accession No.

1980,1001.188

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

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