Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 109 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC HANDMADE LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 109 | |
Description: | Lamp with flat bottom, hemispherical plan, with short sides closing in to nozzle, vertical body, judging from profile against nozzle, flat lip no thicker than body. Body twice as thick on sides as against nozzle. Deep nozzle, almost as deep as body, flat on top with large wick hole that just touches rim. | |
Decoration: | Glaze on interior of nozzle and overlapping floor. | |
Material: | Fine greenish clay without visible inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 5Y 7.5/3 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving left half of floor and side of nozzle. Surface of nozzle preserved, with profile of body on side break. Traces of glaze. | |
Manufacture: | HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.028 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.078 W00.046 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | late 7th-early 6th c. BCE | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | Potters' Quarter, From outside the South Long Building opposite Stel | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. South Long Building, opposite Stelai Shrine A. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 3, p. 253 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952 Monument: Potters' Quarter Basket: Potters' Quarter, From outside the South Long Building opposite Stel |