| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2013 15 | |
| Title: | LATE ROMAN CORINTHIAN IMITATION OF ATTIC LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Year: | 2013 | |
| Object Number: | 15 | |
| Description: | Moldmade terracotta lamp, Broneer Type XXVIII, with base almond shaped with two grooves, pear shaped body with straight flaring walls, horizontal rim, central disk with raised framing ring, kite-shaped nozzle with round wick hole, unpierced knob handle continues to base but offset at mold seam. | |
| Decoration: | Decorative patterns difficult to discern due to poor quality of preservation and poor initial quality of the mold, which seems to have been retouched. Rim: left of handle, vegetal motif?, right of handle, geometric motif (like North African lamps)?. Handle: two transverse grooves continue down to base, top of handle has hatching between the grooves. Base: incised branch, flanked with concentric circles? (Cf. Garnett, Hesperia 44.2, fig. 1.38). | |
| Material: | Hard, reddish gray clay with common medium to large white inclusions and some spalling, laminar to hackly breaks. Slightly lighter on base from different exposure to firing. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/2 (reddish grey) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Four fragments, joining, preserve complete profile with most of handle, body, base, and rim, half nozzle, and small part of disk. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. to rim 0.032, H. to handle 0.043, L. 0.091, Diam. rim 0.066, Diam. base 0.049 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 5th-6th (?) c. (based on almond shaped base, Karivieri1996, p. 75). Retouched Corinthian imitation of Attic lamp; too poorly manufactured and preserved to identify motifs. Fabric might be diagnostic. | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0846 Image: digital 2013 0847 Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080 |
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