Greek black-glaze lamp, Athens, late 5th century to first quarter of the 4th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 2.1cm, diameter: 6.1cm, length including the spout and the handle: 10.4cm
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Oil lamp with an open disc body, ribbon handle and circular raised base defined by a groove. The lamp dipped in black glaze, the underside reserved and with four concentric...
Oil lamp with an open disc body, ribbon handle and circular raised base defined by a groove. The lamp dipped in black glaze, the underside reserved and with four concentric circle indentations created by the potting wheel. The orange clay has small particles of mica. Intact.
Olive oil was poured into the hollow interior and acted as fuel for the wick, which was held in place by the projecting nozzle. The lamps in this catalogue were all thrown on the wheel. It wasn’t until c.300BC that lamps were being produced from moulds, en masse; a far less time consuming process.
Olive oil was poured into the hollow interior and acted as fuel for the wick, which was held in place by the projecting nozzle. The lamps in this catalogue were all thrown on the wheel. It wasn’t until c.300BC that lamps were being produced from moulds, en masse; a far less time consuming process.
Provenance
Emil Maansson, Sweden (1896-1977); acquired mid-20th centuryLiterature
Compare Don M. Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, I: Greek, Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery Lamps (London, 1975), pl.12, Q64Also see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Musée d'Eivisaa, pl.17, no.2
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