Terracotta saucer-shaped oil lamp - image 1

Classical

Terracotta saucer-shaped oil lamp

Open, wheel-made. Thick, horizontal rim, with rounded lip, pinched in on one side with two projecting nozzles. Undefined, slightly convex base. Intact. Length: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm) Height: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1990

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. CXXXVIII.1012, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2517, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2020. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracotta Oil Lamps. no. 17, pp. 44-45, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.