Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KL 161 | |
Title: | MINIATURE LAMP | |
Category: | Lamps | |
Category Code: | KL | |
Object Number: | 161 | |
Description: | Miniature lamp with flat bottom, convex walls, inturned rim with tapered lip. Filling hole is slightly misshapen. Blunt rounded nozzle with wick hole slightly removed from rim. Attachments for horizontal handle. | |
Decoration: | String marks on base. Black glaze over all, fired partly red. | |
Material: | Fine, very pale brown clay with rare fine inclusions and rare fine voids | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Complete except for missing handle. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Likely late 5th c. B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 212) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P86 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 8. Trench XX, west of north-south wall. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 49 (pp. 86 - 87) |