Corinth Object: KL 142
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KL 142
Title:   ATTIC LAMP HOWLAND TYPE 16B
Category:   Lamps
Category Code:   KL
Object Number:   142
Description:   Lamp with concave bottom curving into flaring body with slight convex profile, max. diam. at top, very broad rim horizontal rim, overhanging inside and out, with convex profile; central hump on floor. Paring marks on exterior.
Decoration:   Lustrous black glaze on rim and interior; exterior burnished.
Material:   Fine light red clay with sparkling inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 6/6 and 7.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., preserving complete profile; all of bottom, 4/5 body, 3/4 rim; missing nozzle; chips in rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.016 D00.086 (body) D00.095 (rim) D00.047 (fill hole)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.083
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   second half 6th c. to start of 5th c. BCE
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB123 P110
Provenance:   Attica
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Trench S4.
Bibliography:   Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 52, p. 260
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952
Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 6482
Image: bw 2001 020 22
Basket: NB123 P110
Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 60 (pp. 109 - 110)