1977.216.3459: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.3459
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 550-450 BCE
- Period
- Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/289219
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 1.95 x 6.1 x 4.8 cm (3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Information sheet in object file reads: "From the Estate of Theodore Dwight through Miss Harriet S. Amory, 1920", but lists the provenance as unknown.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Miss Harriet S. Amory, 1920
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.3459
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Small, wheelmade lamp with relatively shallow body, flaring walls, angular shoulder, and flat, narrow rim. Broad filling hole. Small, rounded, thickly bridged nozzle retains charring at tip, around nozzle hole, and at underside. Small, flat base with string marks.
Darkish orange-tan fabric, very heavily weathered and having flaked apart in layers: Exterior surface appears cork-like. Very slight traces of a dark orange-brown slip remain.
Verification Level
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