1959.224: Lamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1959.224

Title

Lamp

Classification

Lighting Devices

Work Type

lighting device

Date

500-400 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Macedonia, Olynthos (Macedonia)

Period

Classical period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291081

Physical Descriptions

Medium

terracotta

Technique

Wheel-made

Dimensions

2.1 x 11.65 x 8.1 cm (13/16 x 4 9/16 x 3 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Object card from file indicates that this lamp is from Olynthus.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson

Accession Year

1959

Object Number

1959.224

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Wheelmade lamp with shallow body, incurving walls, curved rim, and broad filling hole. Band handle at rear slopes slightly upward from the horizontal. Short, rounded, bridged nozzle with oval wick hole. No base. Concavity at underside creates convexity at floor of oil chamber that terminates in a conical point.
Dark buff, micaceous clay with small sandy inclusions. Dipped in orange slip at handle and nozzle. Nozzle and bridge blackened from use. Slight chipping at rim and on body walls.

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. 317

Exhibition History

• The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961

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