Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 15 | |
Title: | LAMP BRONEER TYPE I | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 15 | |
Description: | Lamp with concave bottom, biconical body curving up to broad flat rim that slopes sharply downward to large fill hole; floor flat; scar of nozzle, attached to body. For type see Stillwelll 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 12 but without socket. | |
Decoration: | Red-brown glaze unevenly aplied to bottom and body; on rim 5 fine concentric rings, which misdrawn so that circles partly straightened. | |
Material: | Fine pale pinkish buff clay, fired to pale gray at core, with 2% or less fine round voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 10YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile, 1/2 lamp, missing nozzle except for scar of left half; glaze worn. Burning on rim at nozzle. Clay partly pulled off from bottom. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.034 D00.057 (bottom) D00.083 (max) D00.078 (rim) | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | Archaic | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown; written in pencil by inv | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 2001 023 15 Basket: Potters' Quarter, Exact provenance unknown; written in pencil by inv |