Lamp
MS4145
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4145 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | Chi 9 |
| Period | Late Minoan I | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Wheel Made |
| Description | Conical cup with convex profile on conical stand; two pinched out spouts for the wicks, opposed. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7-8/4) clay. Wiped with water, but not burnished. Wheelmade. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, no. 56 (Gournia). This type of lamp probably developed from the East Cretan Middle Minoan lamps with smaller bases. Crudely hand-made. Form of small deep round saucer with two small nozzles pulled from rim opposite each other, set on a high conical base, with uneven outline. Base hollow, with flat round bottom, pierced by hole. |
| Height | 10.1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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