- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1960.588
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 350-200 BCE
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290684
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 3.2 x 6.7 x 4.95 cm (1 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.588
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Wheelmade lamp with deep body and almost straight, inwardly slanting walls. Ends of walls serve as rim. Relatively large, bridged, splayed nozzle, with preserved charring. Tall central tube rises from floor of oil chamber and terminates just above the level of the rim. Doughnut-shaped base.
Orange-buff fabric with particulate inclusions. Dark orange-brown slip. Chipping along rim and at base. Generally weathered or worn surface.
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