Lamp
MS4604
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4604 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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