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    Hellenistic lamp. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

Hellenistic lamp

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