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Lamp

Lamp

Cypriot

Wheel-made lamp of open shape. Broad, flat dish shape. Flat base with some string marks. Underside walls flare outwards to create a shallow reservoir. Broad rim with narrow ridge defining rim from reservoir. Pinched nozzle. Orange-buff fabric with with dark sandy inclusions. Chalky yellowish slip. Significant charring at nozzle.

Terracotta

Archaic period to Hellenistic

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