Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 2011 2 | |
Title: | LATE ROMAN NORTH AFRICAN TERRACOTTA LAMP | |
Category Code: | L | |
Year: | 2011 | |
Object Number: | 2 | |
Description: | Lamp made from two-piece mold with carefully pruned seam. Ring foot, wide convex body, long nozzle. Airhole in channel to nozzle, two pour holes on disk; lug handle overlapping frame. | |
Decoration: | Frame of disk has alternating disks and triangles with single pellet to sides of channle to nozzle. Jewelled XR on disk? | |
Material: | Fine red clay | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 5/6 (red) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt preserving all of lamp except for center of disk. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. 0.102, W. 0.063, H. to handle 0.040, H. to rim 0.037 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Area: | Theater | |
Context: | Theater, context 3133, LOT 2011 050 | |
Bibliography: | Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 32 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Theater Image: digital 2011 1210 |