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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
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Descriptions

Description
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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