| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 179 | |
| Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 179 | |
| Description: | Lamp with flat bottom framed by groove, echinoid body, flat rim with 2 raised panels, plastic ring around deep concave disk with fill hole off-center at 9:00. Small airhole at base of nozzle. Nozzle U-shaped and surrounded by raised panel. Vertical pierced lug handle with 2 grooves down upper half and bottom, smeared in between. Handle stops above bottom. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: impressed tongues; disk: Fortuna-Tyche, standing front, weight on rt. leg, lt. flexed, head 3/4 rt., rt. arm raised with wreath, left holding long palm branch. Wears chiton (?) with rt. shoulder bared. | |
| Writing: | stamp. Inscribed on bottom, Greek: | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining frgts., complete except for hole in right side of body, and small part of rim surface. Burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.029 (rim) H00.048 (max) L00.105 D00.083 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd-3rd c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Forum | |
| Context: | Forum, Water Channel, B. 45. B. | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 600 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Forum Image: bw 1863 Image: bw 2000 041 06a Basket: Forum, Water Channel, B. 45. B. Notebook Page: NB 79, spread 62 (pp. 512 - 513) |
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