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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1956 ΝΑΔ 59

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Lamp

Period

Classical Period

Date

480-415 BC

Dimensions

Length: 0.11 m
Disk diameter: 0.048 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 3, No 139

Description
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Single-nozzle black-glazed lamp mended from many fragments and restored. It was found in 1956 on the Acropolis south slope in a pit that contained many miniature pots and lamps of this type, possibly used during the enactment of a foundation ritual.

It is disk-based with low, rounded body and rim that slants inwards. The filling hole is big, the nozzle short and the band handle horizontal. The whole lamp is covered with black glaze, apart from the base that remains in clay colour.

Παπαδοπούλου-Κανελλοπούλου, Χ., «Ανασκαφή "Νοτίως Ακροπόλεως". Μελανόμορφη κεραμεική», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 27 (1972), 1973, σελ. 226