| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 1776 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE GREEN-GLAZED LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 1776 | |
| Description: | Lamp with low ring base with broad flat resting surface, hollow to preserved top. Shallow saucer with wide flaring body, round lip, one side pinched to form unbridged nozzle (unburned); thick stem 2nd saucer with deeper body with vertical sides, round lip, pinched to form nozzle directly above lower one; stem continues above this. | |
| Decoration: | White slip and light green glaze over all, including interior. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine clay fired light red to tan, with rare rounded and angular red inclusions, at least one off-white, voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 to yellower | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving lamp from base through upper saucer; all of lower saucer, half of upper and stump of stem above it; burning on upper nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.065 (base) W00.093 (lower saucer, max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.080 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum southeast | |
| Context: | NB139 P7 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southeast Image: bw 2000 015 21a Basket: NB139 P7 Notebook Page: NB 139, spread 8 (pp. 6 - 7) |
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