| Title: | Archaic Stone Lamp |
| Summary: | Archaic Stone Lamp, with parts in New York and Boston |
| Object Function: | Ornament |
| Material: | Calcite |
| Sculpture Type: | Relief-decorated vessel |
| Category: | Separated fragments |
| Style: | High Archaic |
| Technique: | Low relief |
| Original or Copy: | Original |
| Date: | ca. 550 BC - ca. 525 BC |
| Scale: | Miniature |
| Period: | High Archaic |
Subject Description:
A circular bowl with three projecting nozzles, and a flat-topped cone-shaped projection in the center (which, according to Richter, masked an iron spike on which the lamp was mounted). The three panels between nozzles are bordered at the top with ovolos, and at the sides with bead-and-reel mouldings. A plain moulding at the bottom goes around all sides. On each panel is shown a pair of confronting monsters: sirens with clasped human hands on one side; griffins, with raised forelegs rested on a double-volute support on another side; and sphinxes with sickle-shaped wings and raised tails on the third side. The two sides of each nozzle are also decorated with various creatures: rams heads on one nozzle; rampant roaring lions on another; and birds perched on lotus flowers rising from inverted palmettes on the third.
Form & Style:
Beazley notes that the style is East Greek.
Condition: Fragmentary
Sources Used:
See bibliographies for individual pieces.