Corinth Object: KL 109
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