| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 1604 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE GREEN-GLAZED LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 1604 | |
| Description: | Lamp consisting of cylindrical stem, with (originally) one bowl at bottom, second at top; second consists of a flaring saucer with tapered lip, folded up on sides to form unbridged nozzle. Stem flattened at top and pierced with horizontal suspension hole D00.007. Stem hollow to poss. base of upper saucer. | |
| Decoration: | White slip inside and out of upper saucer and stem above it; green glaze covering slip except for lower half of exterior of saucer. | |
| Material: | Fine hard-fired and well-compacted light red clay with rare angular black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken at juncture to lower bowl, preserving half of upper bowl to top. Burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.029 (stem at base) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.104 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Temple E | |
| Context: | NB127 P155 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E Image: bw 2000 015 18a Basket: NB127 P155 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 67 (pp. 124 - 125) Notebook Page: NB 127, spread 83 (pp. 155 - 156) |
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