Detail of a Greek Marble Lamp in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Title: Marble lamp

Period: Archaic

Date: 6th century BCE

Culture: Greek

Medium: Marble, Calcite

Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

Classification: Miscellaneous-Stone

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

Object Number: 06.1072


Fragment of a marble lamp; in the panels, pairs of confronted sphinxes, sirens, and griffins; on the nozzles, pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds perched atop lotus flowers growing from palmettes.

The sides are decorated in low relief with pairs of sphinxes, griffins, and sirens. The nozzles have pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds standing on lotus flowers. (The large fragment with rams' heads and the upper part of the griffins has been lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, L.1974.44.)
Marble lamp, Marble, Calcite, Greek

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247490