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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.495.156
Title
Miniature Lamp
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
525-400 BCE
Period
Archaic period to Classical
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147085

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Wheel-made
Dimensions
2.9 x 7 x 5.8 cm (1 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Information sheet in object file reads: "Received R. C. Winthrop 1869."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.495.156
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Wheelmade lamp with relatively deep body, incurving walls, flat rim, and broad filling hole. Medium-sized, bridged, round nozzle at rim level. Small amount of charring visible around nozzle hole and edge of rim adjacent to nozzle. Low, flat base with string marks. Tool marks from finishing process visible on much of upper body.
Buff-orange fabric with pale accretion over much of body. Heavily worn. Either self- or unslipped.

Verification Level

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