Corinth Object: L 2000 3
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2000 3
Title:   ARGIVE ROMAN LAMP
Category Code:   L
Year:   2000
Object Number:   3
Description:   Mouldmade lamp with low disk foot with central raised disk in concave undersurface, echinoid body, narrow sloping rim, deep concave disk framed by ring, small central fill hole, long nozzle with round tip, medium-sized wick hole, base of wish-bone handle attached to body. See Corinth IV.2.532 and L-4229.
Decoration:   Deeply impressed tongues on rim and incised rays on discus.
Material:   Fine gray clay with abundant lime inclusions, some sparkling ones.
Munsell Color:   Between 10YR 4/3 to 10YR 3/3
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, 6 joining fragments, whole foot, 5/6 body, complete disk and nozzle except for hole in side of nozzle, stumps of handles
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.0030 D00.0041 (foot) D00.0069 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.0103
Period:   1 st c. A.C.
Chronology:   1st c. AC (parallels); context: 3rd c. AC
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB928 B31 P56
Provenance:   Argos
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 2000 026 30
Basket: NB928 B31 P56
Notebook Page: NB 928, spread 33 (pp. 56 - 57)