Lot 38

A MINOAN SERPENTINE OIL LAMP

MINOAN III-MIDDLE MINOAN II, CIRCA 2000 B.C.

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A MINOAN SERPENTINE OIL LAMP
MINOAN III-MIDDLE MINOAN II, CIRCA 2000 B.C.
9 3⁄16 in. (23.3 cm.) wide incl. handles

Archéologie, Francois De Ricqlès, Drouot Richilieu, Paris, 29 and 30 September 1997, lot 448.

For a similar lamp also in stone, cf. C. Zervos, L'art de la Crète Néolithique et Minoenne, Paris, 1956, p. 154, no. 150.