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Oil Lamp

1912.01.0052

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Artifact Identification Oil Lamp   (1912.01.0052)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Furnishings
    2. :
  2. Lighting Equipment
    3. :
  3. Lighting Devices
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Early Hellenistic
Date 300 – 275 BCE
Culture Greek, Attic
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Width) 8.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Depth) 6.5 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 3.4 cm
Weight 102 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Ceramic--Terracotta
Manufacturing Processes Throwing, Handbuilding, Incising, Firing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Divisions for region taken from: Baines & Málek. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980.

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

PETRIE, W. M. F., Abydos, Part I, 1902. Twenty-Second Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1902.

PETRIE, W. M. F., Abydos, Part II, 1903. Twenty-Fourth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1903.

AYRTON, E. R., CURRELLY, M. A. and WEIGALL, A. E. P. Abydos, Part III, 1904. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1904.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1909-1910, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1910, p.1-7.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1910-1911, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1911, p.1-4.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1911-1912, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1912, p.1-8.

NAVILLE, E., The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part I. 1909-1910. The Mixed Cemetery and Umm el-Ga’ab. Thirty-Third Memoir of the Exploration Fund, London, 1914.

ERIC PEET, T. The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part II. 1911-1912. Thirty-Fourth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1914.

ERIC PEET, T. and LOAT, W. L. S., The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part III. 1912-1913. Thirty-Fifth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1913.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction no

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