Corinth Object: L 1755
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 1755
Title:   NORTH AFRICAN TYPE LAMP BRONEER XXXI
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   1755
Description:   North African type lamp with biconical body, recessed flat rim and disk, separated by plastic ridge that turns into channel to nozzle; central fill hole; large air hole in channel and start of large wick hole.
Decoration:   Rim: row of rectangles and dots in relief, framed by small dots; disk: cross with raised outline, filler of dots, oval loop at top; circles in arms of cross.
Material:   Fine well-compacted tan clay with few fine black (?) inclusions, a few sparkling and voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 2/3 of left side of lamp: upper body to center of disk, start of nozzle and 1/4 wick hole. Burning on nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.079 H00.023 W00.044
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   6th c.
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB140 P2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Image: bw 2000 015 33a
Basket: NB140 P2
Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 7 (pp. 2 - 3)