Fragment of a marble lamp; in the panels, pairs of confronted sphinxes, sirens, and griffins; on the nozzles, pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds perched atop lotus flowers growing from palmettes.
The sides are decorated in low relief with pairs of sphinxes, griffins, and sirens. The nozzles have pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds standing on lotus flowers. (The large fragment with rams' heads and the upper part of the griffins has been lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, L.1974.44.)
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Title:Marble lamp
Period:Archaic
Date:6th century BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Marble, Calcite
Dimensions:H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Classification:Miscellaneous-Stone
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number:06.1072
Said to be from Thebes
[Until 1906, with Costis A. Lembessis, Paris]; acquired in 1906, purchased from C.A. Lembessis.
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Lazzarini, Lorenzo and Dr. Clemente Marconi. 2014. "A New Analysis of Major Greek Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum: Petrological and Stylistic." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 49: pp. 125, 130, fig. 23.
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