| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 4069 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LAMP WITH SACRIFICE OF ISAAC | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 4069 | |
| Description: | Lamp with low base ring, shallow convex body, broad flat rim, shallow concave disk, one fill hole off-center, channel to long nozzle with large wick hole, air hole in channel. Imitation North African Lamp. Similar in shape to L-69-146, L-70-13, L-72-6. Similar also to L-596, L-925, and L-69-25, which are smaller. | |
| Decoration: | On rim, between raised ridges, ring of circles filled with 6- or 4-pointed stars in low relief; disk, Sacrifice of Isaac: centrally placed male, striding rt. with large sword held over head in rt. hand, part of small figure in front, lamb in back, above which hand of God descending from heaven. For similar, see L-596, L-925, L-69-25, L-69-146, L-70-13, and L-72-6. | |
| Mythology: | Sacrifice of Abraham | |
| Attributes: | Hand of God | |
| Material: | Hard-fired dark red-brown clay with frequent finy white inclusions, few tiny sparkling ones. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving front two-thirds of lamp, full profile. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.025 D00.066 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.086 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Roman Context possibly 5-6th c. | |
| Area: | Lechaion | |
| Context: | Lechaion, From Lechaion Basilica | |
| Site: | Lechaion | |
| City: | Lechaio | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Lechaion Image: bw 1997 001 03 Basket: Lechaion, From Lechaion Basilica |
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