Lamp copying a bronze lamp type
Medium:Red slipped earthenware
Geography: Found in al-Fayyūm, Egypt
Date: 6th century CE
Period: Byzantine period
Dimensions:4.7 x 13.6 x 6.25 cm
Object number: 910.166.6
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Walter Massey
Description
| Most of
the lamps in Copto-Byzantine Egypt were made of terra-cotta. The various oils
used to feed lamps in Egypt, such as castor oil, palm oil, and olive oil, are
mentioned by the classical authors and in the Greek papyri. |
