1960.556: Greek Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.556
- Title
- Greek Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 400-300 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Macedonia, Olynthos (Macedonia)
- Period
- Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290544
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 3.1 x 8 x 5.6 cm (1 1/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Information sheet in object folder identifies the original provenance of this object as Olynthus.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.556
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Wheelmade lamp with mid-volume, ovoid body. Rim, in two facets, slopes toward broad filling hole. Long, flat-topped, rounded nozzle chipped at tip. Horizontal strap handle broken away at join with body. Low, flat base.
Buff-orange micaceous fabric with weathered, matt, black slip. Base unslipped. Some chipping around rim.
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. 37, no. 325
Verification Level
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