| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KL 128 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC LAMP | |
| Category: | Lamps | |
| Category Code: | KL | |
| Object Number: | 128 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat bottom, cylindrical body, narrow projecting band at top, broad flat rim, overhanging interior only and slanting down to large fill hole. Pierced vertical lug attached to body, semi-circular in horizontal section. | |
| Decoration: | Reserved with black-figure decoration in dull black glaze: on body, bird (?) in silhouette on either side of lup and head of goat (?) right, beyond bird on left side. Rim: two boats with prows facing away from lug, stern curving up and in, mast (?) in center (published as panthers). Curved line on rim on either side of lug, concentric circles on top of lug, three horizontal lines on outer face. Interior reserved. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay with rare lime inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile: over half bottom, slightly less than half of body and rim, one lug, much of surface of which chipped away. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.023 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.090 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.08-00.09 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | late 7th-6th c. BCE | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB106 P179 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Trench Jb. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 21 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 6482 Image: bw 2001 020 26 Basket: NB106 P179 Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 94 (pp. 178 - 179) |
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