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, October 6, 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
last third of the 1st-3rd Century CE
1st Century CE
70-135 CE
1st Century CE
late 4th-7th Century CE
late 4th - 7th Century CE
70-135 CE
2700-2300 BCE
