| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 2922 | |
| Title: | ATTIC GLAZED LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 2922 | |
| Old Number: | Temp. No. 067 | |
| Description: | Lamp with 2 grooves surrounding flat bottom, deep straight flaring body, flat rim, ring surrounding deep concave disk with at least 1 small fill hole off-center, solid lug handle. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: plain except for panels. disk: Eros, with wings outstretched, preserving head, neck, head turned back to proper rt., under which a basket? Metallic red-brown slip over all. | |
| Mythology: | Eros | |
| Material: | Hard-fired light brown clay with common tiny voids, few fine white and subrounded red inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: yellower than 5YR 5/6 slip: ca. 2.5YR 4/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile except for center of disk; complete base, underside of nozzle, half body-rim 1/3 disk, all of handle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.046 (max) H00.036 (rim) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.082 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | W00.08 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P148 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 040 27a Basket: NB122 P148 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 79 (pp. 148 - 149) |
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