| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 3836 | |
| Title: | IMITATION NORTH AFRICAN LAMP | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 3836 | |
| Description: | Type XXXI lamp with small base ring, wide flaring body with slight convex profile, turning in to broad, slightly depressed rim, shallow round disk, connnected by broad channel to nozzle with large wick hole. solid triangular handle, with rib extending from its base to base ring. Juncture between top and bottom moulds carelessly made. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: with triangles, squares et. al. in low relief. disk: a head circled by a nimbus, and at lower edge part of long garment and two feet. | |
| Material: | Hard-fired clay with frequent popped white lime inclusions, fired brown at surface to red at core. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete except for 1/4 body, nearly all of disk, small part of rim. Heavy burning on nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.032 L00.105 W00.065 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB197 P145 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 1999 008 05 Basket: NB197 P145 Notebook Page: NB 197, spread 77 (pp. 144 - 145) |
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