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Hellenistic lamp. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Hellenistic lamp
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 218
- Date
- Second to early first century BC, Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4139
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4139
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- L59.041
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Lamp
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Tomb of the Lintel
- Description
- Hellenistic ceramic mold-made lamp. Wheel-made body, concave discus with large central hole, three smaller holes around, probably to allow air to escape while filling the lamp. Handle broken; two knobs on sides of lamp. Flaring nozzle. Thin matte gray paint. Diameter 0.05 m, height 0.03 m, length 0.12 m.
- Comments
- From the same tomb as Nos. 216-217, the “Tomb of the Lintel” in excavation sector PC. Of a type often called “Ephesian,” it is probably a Sardian product.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Introduction”.
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann 1960, 16-18; Rotroff and Oliver 2003, 14.
- Author
- NDC