ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art
Four-Spouted Lamp
Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia
Date2300-2000 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958
DimensionsMaximum: 2 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (5.7 × 14 × 14 cm)
Object number1958.012
Label TextFour-spouted lamps are a hallmark object for the period. Lamps were usually found on the floors of the tombs, perhaps left symbolically to provide light for the dead. Small niches hewn into the tomb walls were usually smoked-blackened and indicate that lighted lamps had been placed in them.Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - February 12, 2018
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, October 14, 2024 - Present
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho II (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1965), 131-32, figure 69.6, 547.
ProvenanceExcavated by Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), Jericho, Palestine.
Status
On viewCollections
- Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
late 6th Century BCE
1st-2nd Century CE
late 19th-early 20th Century
1st Century CE
2300-2000 BCE
14th Century
15th Century
1800-1600 BCE
3300-3050 BCE
2000-1600 BCE
2000-1600 BCE
