Corinth Object: L 825
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 825
Title:   LAMP BRONEER TYPE IX
    HANDMADE LAMP BRONEER TYPE I
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   825
Old Number:   T 0156/L 0035
Description:   Lamp with concave bottom, watch-shaped body: lower body straight flaring to H00.018, upper half contracting to broad groove, articulating broad horizontal rim with convex profile. Unpierced lug to lt. of nozzle, nozzle long and tapering, flat on top.
    Lamp with unevenly flattened bottom curving into central socket that reaches ht. of rim, and into body that widens slightly to broad rim that rises slightly from horizontal, overhanging interior, with thickened lip, unevenly pared from rim on upper surface. Paring marks over whole of exterior and burnished.
Decoration:   Black glaze over all.
Material:   Fine pale grayish-pink clay
    Fine hard-fired buff clay, fired to pink at core, with rare lime inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 7/6
Condition:   Complete profile. intact except for half of nozzle. RIP. Glaze worn.
    Complete profile. Single frgt., over half bottom, nearly half body, rim, all of socket. Burning on rim.
Manufacture:   WM
    HM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.03 D00.065
    H00.024
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.078
Dimensions Restored:   D00.08-00.085
Period:   Hellenistic
    Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   Hellenistic
    Archaic
Area:   East of Theater Athena Trench
    Early Excavations
Context:   NB549 P123
    Early Excavations, FIB: B. 10 (Provenance unknown)
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Broneer 1930, Corinth 4.2, cat. 143
    Corinth 4.2, cat. 6
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Broneer, Corinth 4:2, 1930b
Monument: Early Excavations
Monument: East of Theater Athena Trench
Image: bw 2000 033 18
Basket: Early Excavations, FIB: B. 10 (Provenance unknown)