Corinth Object: KL 15
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