| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 1605 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE GREEN-GLAZED LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 1605 | |
| Description: | Lamp with thick stem, tapering from bottom to top, with biconical thickening at mid height; very shallow saucer with wide-flaring body, plain lip, pinched to form 3 small unbridged nozzles. Stump of stem in middle of saucer. Stump of vertical handle attached to udnerside of saucer opposite central nozzle. | |
| Decoration: | Clear glaze over all, applied thickly to interior of saucer, thinly outside. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine clay fired from bright red at exterior to paler red in, with rare small angular spherical red-brown inclusions, frequent fine white, black. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/6 to 7.5YR 5/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. single frgt., stem from above lower saucer to upper saucer; broken above; upper saucer nearly complete except for one nozzle. Burning on nozzles. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.045 (stem, max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.077 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Temple E | |
| Context: | NB129 P37 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E Image: bw 2000 015 19a Basket: NB129 P37 Notebook Page: NB 129, spread 24 (pp. 37 - 38) |
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