Lamp

Conical lamp with edge of rim squared in profile, on high, conical base; concave reservoir with two opposed wick-cuttings; two opposed lug-handles below the rim, opposite the wick-cuttings; hollow base. Coarse, unevenly colored gray to brown (2.5-5 YR 4/3-4) clay, with light and dark inclusions. Covered with dark paint and burnished. Restored from fragments. This is a ceramic version of lamps like vol. I, nos. 95-98, a lamp used widely in Minoan Crete and in areas under Minoan influence (Melas 1985: no. 201). Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, nos. 75 and 77 (Gournia). For discussion of pedestal lamps see Mercando 1974-75: 29-32.