Corinth Object: L 4197
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)