Corinth Object: L 1111
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 1111
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII: DISK
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   1111
Description:   Lamp with flat rim, raised band surrounding concave disk. Small fill hole off-center at ca. 10:00.
Decoration:   Rim: impressed tongues (?); disk: in low relief Hephaistos from head to rt. ankle, lt. knee, facing or striding rt. with rt. hand holding hammer at face ht., left holding tongs below; wears conical cap, chitonikos with lt. shoulder bare.
Mythology:   Hephaistos
Attributes:   Hammer Tongs
Material:   Fine buff clay fired to light pink on interior.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 7/4 Near 7.5YR 6.5/5
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., roughly 1/5 disk, edge of rim, edge of fill hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Preserved:   MPDim00.057
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   2nd-3rd c. A.C.
Area:   Odeion
Context:   NB96 P77
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 597
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b
Monument: Odeion
Image: bw 1860
Image: bw 2000 049 07
Basket: NB96 P77
Notebook Page: NB 96, spread 43 (pp. 76 - 77)