Lamp

MS4566C

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4566C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan IIIA | Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Lamp on hollow stand; pulled out spout; inturned rim; handle opposite spout. Medium textured, unevenly colored brown (7.5 YR 5/6) to black clay, with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Undecorated. Intact except for missing handle and bottom of base. Comments: MM III-LM I (?). Discolored at spout, from use. See 4566-A.

Height 4.6 cm
Length 10 cm
Outside Diameter 8.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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