1960.550: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.550
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 750-500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Cypriot?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290524
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 3.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm (1 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Information sheet in object file indicates that this lamp is from Cyprus. It is not clear whether the statement is conjectural based on the form of the lamp, or if the lamp was actually acquired on Cyprus.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.550
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Wheelmade lamp of the so-called cocked-hat type. Small bowl with two sides pinched together to form a wick rest. Narrow, low, unfinished base with string marks.
Red-orange fabric with sand-sized black and white inclusions. Wheel striations over whole of body. Unslipped.
Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 36, no. 312
Verification Level
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