Corinth Object: L 4059
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 4059
Title:   LATE ROMAN IMITATION OF NORTH AFRICAN LAMP BRONEER XXXI
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   4059
Description:   Lamp with low base ring, convex wall, sunken top and high hooked, knob handle. two filling holes on disk and one partly cutting wickhole. Ridge from base ring to base fo handle.
Decoration:   Pair of palm branches in relief on sunken rim. Linear "peacock" on disk with feet to right and head towards handle. Two circles of a cross signature within base ring. Light reddish brown to gray wash on top half only.
Material:   Hard fired, very fine reddish yellow fabric with occasional white grits and slit voids; minute sparkling inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Clay: 7.5YR 7/5 Wash: 2.5YR 6/4 to 5YR 3/1
Condition:   Complete profile. Half preserved.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.036
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.097 W00.050
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Second half of the 6th c. to 600 (context).
Area:   Baths of Aphrodite
Context:   NB272 P106
Provenance:   Unknown
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Baths of Aphrodite
Image: bw 2001 020 07
Basket: NB272 P106