1959.227: Greek Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1959.227
- Title
- Greek Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 500-400 BCE
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291094
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 2.8 x 7.8 x 4.4 cm (1 1/8 x 3 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- 1959.227
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Wheelmade body with rounded, incurving sides, and broad filling hole. Band handle at rear slopes upward from the horizontal. Long, rounded nozzle with charring at tip. Low, string-cut base.
Buff fabric with pebbly inclusions. Orange-brown slip. Heavily worn.
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. 318
Verification Level
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