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Lamp

Object Number:MS4604
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Minoan
Provenience: Greece
Crete
Gournia
Period: Late Minoan I
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Height: 7.5 cm
Length: 9.7 cm
Outside Diameter:9.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

Description

Lamp with shape similar to 4598. Coarse, light red (2.5 YR 6/6) clay with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Intact except for handel, across from spout. See 4598.

Reddish clay full of pebbles, small base, 2 small lug handles, remains of 1 loop handle opposite spout. Part of back missing. Very coarse, gritty, porous red clay. Wheel-made. Base, tip of nozzle blackened by burning. Form of slightly flattened round bowl, with rounded shoulder, rolled rim, flat raised base. Small nozzle pulled from rim.

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Collection] Silverman, Jean S., and Betancourt, Philip P. 1991. Pottery from Gournia:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 58, no. 602, pl. 18, fig. 21View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Thesis] Silverman, Jean S. 1978. The Gournia Collection in the University Museum: A Study in East Cretan Pottery. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 153, no. 371, fig. 9, no. 5, pl. 23e, no. 2View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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