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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Saucer Lamp

AAT Object Form/Functionlamps (lighting devices)

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

CultureCanaanite

PeriodMiddle Bronze Age

Date2000-1600 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions1 5/16 x 5 1/16 in. (3.3 x 12.8 cm)

Object number1956.008

Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
Across the Millennia: Antiques from the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6 - February 29, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - February 12, 2018
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho II (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1965), 193, 309, figure 148.7.
Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982).

ProvenanceExcavated by Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), Tomb J, Jericho, Palestine.

Status

Not on view

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