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Lamp

GREECE, Attica or CYRENAICA
Lamp
 5th century BCE

Medium
fired clay

Measurements
3.5 × 10.1 × 14.9 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1893

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Attica, Greece / Cyrenaica

Accession Number
165-D1A

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Shallow, round, wheel-made bowl-shaped lamp with a short, rounded nozzle and horizontal band handle. The rim is incurved and the underside is slightly concave on a slightly raised base, i.e. defined by a circular rise. There is black glaze on the nozzle, handle, rim and interior and red on the base, sides and stems of handle. The clay is pink/buff.

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