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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KL 169 | | Title: | | MINIATURE LAMP | | Category: | | Lamps | | Category Code: | | KL | | Object Number: | | 169 | | Description: | | Miniature lamp with very low disc foot with flat underside, echinoid body and inturned rim with tapered lip. Long, rounded nozzle. Round, horizontal handle attached opposite nozzle rises slightly above rim. Similar to other lamps from the same deposit, KL 167-176. | | Decoration: | | String marks on base. Black glaze over all, fired partially red. | | Material: | | Very fine light pink clay with rare very fine inclusions and rare fine voids | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Two joining frgts, complete except for small chip on handle. Glaze flaking. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle to 3rd Quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P61 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. (N.B. Benson confused Deposits 5 and 6 in Corinth 15.3, but the notebooks and Corinth 15.1 make it clear that this is Deposit 6) | | Bibliography: | | Cited in Stillwell 1954, Corinth 15.2, cat. 94 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61)
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