Lamp

50-1-28

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 50-1-28
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 2nd century BCE- 1st century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Intact, save for chips. Warm buff clay, covered with a thin streaky wash of dull black glaze, now much worn. Flat bottom and no handle; wheelmade. Long shovel-shaped nozzle with large wick hole; narrow depressed rim. Hellenistic, II or I century B.C.

Height 3.5 cm
Length 9.5 cm
Outside Diameter 5.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. R. Hare Davis, 1950
Other Number MX - Other Number

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