Lamp Stand

3rd-2nd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

14.5 cm 44.6 cm

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Made in two parts, this elegant lamp stand features a supporting column resembling the tapering stalk of a papyrus plant, terminating in a papyrus umbel, or flower cluster. The cap supported a bronze or ceramic bowl containing oil. The wick was made of twisted linen, and salt...

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Rev. William MacGregor Collection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, no. 314; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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