Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

Cypriot

Not on view

Wheel-made with edge pinched in to form a narrow wick rest; broad rim with outer rounded lip; open body slanting down to front, with a central tubular projection with flaring mouth; flaring base ring with rough, irregular interior surface; concave, rough base, with hole pierced through from tubular projection, with jagged edge.

Complete, but some ships to edge at front.

The base made with an uneven, hand-worked coil.

Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp, Terracotta, Cypriot

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