Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | L 4197 | |
Title: | ROMAN LAMP: EAR HANDLE | |
Category Code: | L | |
Object Number: | 4197 | |
Description: | A moldmade lamp with a pierced, ear-shaped lug handle on its side; the rim is a double band, the outside one thicker than the inside | |
Decoration: | Red (2.5YR 4/8) glaze on exterior surfaces | |
Material: | Fine, very pale brown clay with rare small black inclusions, few medium, sub-rounded, spherical voids, and few inclusions of silver mica | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. A single fragment preserving most of one handle and around 15% of the lamp's rim | |
Manufacture: | C36 MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.006 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.047, W. 0.028 | |
Weight Description: | 0.006 | |
Weight: | 0.006 | |
Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
Chronology: | For a parallel, see Agora VII (Perlzweig, 1961), p. 79, no. 82, pl. (dated to the first half of the 1st century A.D.) | |
Area: | Forum | |
Context: | NB229 B6 P75, LOT 0631 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum Basket: NB229 B6 P75 Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 42 (pp. 74 - 75) |