1960.558: Greek Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.558
- Title
- Greek Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 450-400 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Macedonia, Olynthos (Macedonia)
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290575
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 2.8 x 8.4 x 7.2 cm (1 1/8 x 3 5/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Excavated at Olynthus. See Olynthus 14, 356: a.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.558
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Wheelmade lamp with relatively shallow body, curving walls, and curved rim with a downwardly sloping facet. Horizontal strap handle preserved only at joins with body. Most of mid-length, flat-topped nozzle missing. Low disc base, vaguely concave and separated from underside of body by a groove.
Orange, micaceous, well-levigated fabric with chipping matt black slip. Underside of base unslipped. Reconstructed from two fragments.
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. 326
Verification Level
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