Corinth Object: KL 102
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KL 102
Title:   IMPORTED LAMP, ATTIC ? HOWLAND 16B
Category:   Lamps
Category Code:   KL
Object Number:   102
Description:   Lamp with flat bottom curving into low body with vertical profile, broad flat rim, projecting well beyond body and sloping down slightly to moderate fill hole; base of nozzle with large wick hole that cuts into half width of rim.
Decoration:   Thin slightly lustrous brown-black wash on exterior and bottom; black glaze on rim, floor, nozzle.
Material:   Fine gray-brown clay.
Munsell Color:   10YR 6/3
Condition:   Complete profile. Six joining frgts., preserving complete profile; 1/3 bottom, 7/8 body, complete circumference of rim but only 1/4 full width; base of nozzle.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.021 D00.078 (body) D00.090 (rim)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.038 (fill hole)
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   2nd half 6th c. B.C.
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   Potters' Quarter, Written in pencil: Dep. in road
Provenance:   Attica ? Laconia ?
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Road Deposit.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 2001 023 19
Basket: Potters' Quarter, Written in pencil: Dep. in road