| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | L 759 | |
| Title: | GLAZED LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVII: DISK | |
| Category Code: | L | |
| Object Number: | 759 | |
| Description: | Lamp with raised panels on rim, raised band surrounding concave disk with fill hole off-center at 3:00; slit air hole at edge of disk, start of raised panel around nozzle. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: plain; disk: central figure of Fortuna, standing with weight on rt. leg, left bent, head turned 3/4 proper rt. Wears long-sleeved garment and himation wrapped around hips; carries rudder in rt. hand down at side, cornucopia in lt. against shoulder; crudely modeled with coarse simple incised folds. Somewhat lustrous brown-black glaze over all. Plaster bubbles. | |
| Mythology: | Fortuna Tyche | |
| Attributes: | Rudder Cornucopia | |
| Material: | Fine brown clay fired to gray, with rare sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., nearly complete disk with fill hole, edge of rim with parts of two panels, base of nozzle. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.064 (disk) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | MPDim00.071 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3rd c. .A.C. | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB87 P130 | |
| Bibliography: | Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 601 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b Monument: Forum northeast Image: bw 1928 Image: bw 2000 041 12a Basket: NB87 P130 Notebook Page: NB 87, spread 70 (pp. 130 - 131) |
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