Corinth Object: L 2013 2
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2013 2
Title:   IMITATION NORTH AFRICAN ATTIC GLAZED LAMP
Category Code:   L
Year:   2013
Object Number:   2
Description:   Broneer type 31, North African shape in probably Attic fabric. Disk: traces of bird feet. Channel: Cross, enclosed by a circle and with pellets between arms. Rim: Outer edge plain and sloping. Within depression, alternating chevrons, circles, and dot rosettes. Best parallel is L 1969-166 (but not slip/glaze); also, L 1969-164 and L19 69-165 (neither with slip or glaze). Further parallel: Karivieri 1996, cat. 37, p.173.
Decoration:   Glaze: thin, shiny, weak red.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay, with rare, small to medium, rounded, spherical white inclusions
Munsell Color:   Clay: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Slip/glaze: 10R 5/4 (weak red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserving part of rim, nozzle, channel, and disk. Slipped surface somewhat pitted and worn. Traces of burning, especially around the nozzle.
Manufacture:   MM
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   6th c. CE, based on Karivieri 1996, cat. 37.
Area:   Nezi Field
Context:   Nezi Field, context 1058, LOT 2013 007
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2013 0894
Basket: Nezi Field, context 1058