Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 70 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC 'COCKED HAT' LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 70 | |
Description: | Lamp with slightly concave bottom, articulated by groove, wide flaring body with slight convex profile, flaring rim with flat thick lip, pulled out on side of lamp, pulled up vertically and pinched to form unbridged nozzle. | |
Decoration: | Black glaze on interior floor, band on interior of body and lip. | |
Material: | Fine clay fired pale brown on surface, to grayish-pinkish-buff at core, with less than 1% coarse lime inclusions, fine voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Yellower than 10YR 6/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile of right half of lamp: all of bottom, less than half rim, right side of nozzle. Burning on nozzle. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.015-00.024 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.079 W00.055 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | late 7th-early 6th c. BCE | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Basket: Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown |