Lamp

Title: Lamp
Inventory Number: A0281
Date Acquired: 1988
Source: Rex Toomey Gift
Provenance: Turkey
From Date: 1
To Date: 200
Description: Convex-bodied reservoir on very low, shallowly convex offset base w plain, fairly narrow convex rim around concave discus which defined on exterior by two relief band within which relief multi-petaled rosette. High-swinging, horizontally pierced vertical loop handle from edge of discus to upper reservoir body decorated w two incised line down outer surface; short rounded nozzle set off from rim by single incised line. Possibly originally coated w dark paint, but badly incrusted; darkened around nozzle.
State of Preservation: Intact, but badly worn & incrusted surface.
Height: 4.7 cm
Length: 9.3 cm
Color: Clay body 5YR 7/8 (reddish yellow); ?paint/incrustation 5YR 6/1 (light gray/gray) to 5YR 4/1 (dark gray); incrustation 5YR 8/1 (white).
Type: lamp
Material: fired clay