Pausanias Description of Greece 1.26.7

[7] Having filled the lamp [ lukhnos] with olive oil, they wait until the same day next year, and the oil is sufficient for the lamp [ lukhnos] during the interval, although it is lit both day and night. The wick in it is made of flax from Karpasia, the only kind of flax that does not get burned up by the fire [of the flame], and a bronze palm above the lamp reaches to the roof and draws off the smoke. The Kallimakhos who made the lamp, although not of the first rank with regard to this craft [ tekhnē], was nevertheless the best in cleverness [ sophiā], so that he was the first to drill holes through stones, and he gave himself the title of katatēxitekhnos [‘having expertise in the process of melting’], or perhaps others gave the title and he established it as his.