Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 17 | |
Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE V | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 17 | |
Description: | Lamp with low disk foot, concave undersurface; body flares out nearly horizontally with straight profile, then turns sharply up, convex upper body, tapering slightly to narrow flat shoulder, broad down-curving rim, cut with one deep and one shallow groove, moderate fill hole; nozzle flat on top, with edge of wick hole set well out from rim. Horizontal band handle opposite rim, on upper body. Published as Broneer VII, but more likely that is V. | |
Decoration: | Exterior complete reserved; interior glazed black. | |
Material: | Fine hard-fired clay, fired pale buff at surface, bright pink at core. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 10YR 8/5 Core: near 2.5YR 4/8 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining frgts., preserving complete profile; right half of lamp except for tip of nozzle, stump of handle. Burning on nozzle. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.028 D00.054 (foot) D00.077 (Max) D00.036 (fill hole) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.092 | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Late 5th to early 4th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB106bis | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Trench H. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 81, p. 265 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Monument: Potters' Quarter Basket: NB106bis Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 85 (pp. 160 - 161) Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 15 (pp. 20 - 21) |