1916.360: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.360
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 650-500 BCE
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292587
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 2.1 x 7.85 x 6.1 cm (13/16 x 3 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.360
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Wheelmade lamp with shallow body, rounded, flaring walls, angular shoulder, and narrow, sloping rim. Broad, rounded, bridged nozzle slopes downward at a slight angle from rim. Central tube at floor of oil chamber rises to just below level of the rim and is incompletely open at top. Short base with central hole preserves string marks.
Pale buff fabric with heavily worn slip of a darker gray-tan color.
Verification Level
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