| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 4170 | |
| Title: | CRUCIFORM LAMP: HANDLE | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 4170 | |
| Description: | Cross-shaped lamp handle, once set at back of lamp at a 45 degree angle | |
| Decoration: | Some thin, salty white slip haphazardly splashed on front part of handle | |
| Material: | Semi-coarse red to reddish brown clay with frequent small to medium angular, tabular tan, few large to very large sub-angular, spherical white, and rare very large angular, spherical black inclusions, and few medium to very large angular, tabular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 4/6 (red) to 5YR 5/4 (reddish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving entire handle, missing a small chip on one side of the cross | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. of handle 0.034, Th. 0.018 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.041 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.022 | |
| Weight: | 0.022 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | See Agora VII (Perlzweig, 1961) pp. 102-3, nos. 371, 372, pl. 11 | |
| Area: | Forum | |
| Context: | NB229 B5 P161, LOT 0656 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum Image: bw 1961 039 05 Basket: NB229 B5 P161 Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 85 (pp. 160 - 161) |
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