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 |