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Triangle-Shaped Object with Human Head on FrontPtolemaic Period - Byzantine Period (332 BCE - 641 CE)

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Terracotta oil lamp fragment, triangular in shape, with a low-relief frontal face surrounded by concentric oval ridges on the upper surface, salmon-pink clay with pale gray encrustation

Unknown, Triangle-Shaped Object with Human Head on Front, Ptolemaic Period - Byzantine Period (332 BCE - 641 CE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Jerome F. Snyder, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Triangle-Shaped Object with Human Head on Front
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
Ptolemaic Period - Byzantine Period (332 BCE - 641 CE)
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
2 13/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.2 x 5.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome F. Snyder
Accession Number
M.80.202.443
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art