Lamp
MS4565
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4565 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Mended from several fragments; surface cracked and worn. Lug-handles broken away. Entire surface blackened. Coarse hard red clay, with gritty white impurities. Originally polished surface? Flat round base, from which sides rise in slight curve to rim. Deep reservoir, two wick-cuttings, two lug-handles, set off from rim by grooves. Two decorative grooves encircle reservoir on rim top, interrupted by nozzles. |
| Height | 6 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 25 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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