Lamp
MS4598
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4598 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Lamp with pulled out wick opening at rim, two lugs, and one loop handle. Coarse, light red (2.5 YR 6.8) to darker clay with many white inclusions. Wiped with water. Restored form fragments; some sherds missing, including handle and wick opening. Burned from use. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, nos. 57-58 (Gournia). For comments see vol. I, no. 33. |
| Height | 9 cm |
| Length | 12 cm |
| Width | 9.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 5.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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