Museum Peek: Lamps

The “Museum Peek” series uses real artifacts from the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Greece to introduce students to general topics in ancient Greek history. Additional links lead students to online resources where they can learn more about the particular the artifacts, watch videos from the museum and archaeological site, and more.

Discover some of the artifacts from Ancient Corinth! Download the file below to learn more about Lamps.

Object:

https://corinth.ascsa.net/id/corinth/object/l 2642?q=lamp&t=object&v=list&sort=&s=3

Parts of a Lamp:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZPXhHmx3NV8Do18qBnB-3wpIp5PytEnl/view

More on Lamps:

https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/anthropology/anthropology-collections-research/mediterranean-oil-lamps

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More on Ancient Corinth:

Watch the Inside the Corinth Museum video for an introduction to the collections.
Learn more about the American School of Classical Studies at Athens here.
Search the Corinth museum’s artifact database here.