| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 1462 | |
| Title: | GLAZED LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXII WITH RELIEF DISK: POLYPHEMUS, ODYSSEUS | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 1462 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flaring body, narrow flat rim, concave disk, surrounded by flat offset band; edge of small fill hole, near lower lt. edge of disk.; volute nozzle, of which base of one volute preserved. | |
| Decoration: | Disk decorated in low relief with standing central figure (Polyphemus), with stringy hair, beard, facing lt.; rt. hand extended out to side, in lt. holds fallen man (Odysseus) by his lt. arm; of this half upper half of torso to head, both arms. Cf. Fremersdorf, p. 129, fig. 82, and pl. III, A-B; Loeschke, p. 422, fig. 33. | |
| Mythology: | Odyssey: Polyphemus, Odysseus | |
| Material: | Fine pale yellow-gray clay with rare tiny black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Nine joining frgts., preserving nearly half lamp from above bottom, with one volute of nozzle. In existing half of disk, large hole. Burning on nozzle.Traces of black glaze. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.067 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.022, L. 0.075 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1st to early 2nd c. A.D. | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | Odeion, Found outside of outer wall of cavea on west side | |
| Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 430 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Odeion Basket: Odeion, Found outside of outer wall of cavea on west side |
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