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) |